Alleging that a trap was laid out for him ahead of his Ayodhya visit, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday claimed he had deliberately put his tour of the holy city on hold as he did not want false cases to be lodged against MNS workers.
Speaking in Pune’s Ganesh Kala Krida Centre on Sunday, he said, “False cases were to have been slapped on MNS workers had they accompanied me to Ayodhya. But I did not fall for this trap as I did not want my MNS activists to be languishing in jails there. I can endure criticism [for postponing the Ayodhya visit], but I will not let my children [MNS workers] get stuck there.”
However, lest he be misunderstood on his Hindutva stance, the MNS leader urged Prime Minister Modi to bring on the Uniform Civil Code and a law on population control as well as to rename Aurangabad as ‘Sambhajinagar’ (after Shivaji’s son, Chhatrapati Sambhaji), at the earliest .
