I am waiting to be arrested, declares Bal Thackeray

Kartik Shuddha Dvadashi

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• I am waiting to be arrested, declares Bal Thackeray  (10 Nov 08)
• We should be proud of Sadhvi Pragya: Balasaheb Thackeray (2 Nov 08)

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I am waiting to be arrested, declares Bal Thackeray

Mumbai: Stating that the Shiv Sena was ready to provide the best lawyers to defend Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, arrested in connection with the Malegaon blast, Sena chief Bal Thackeray  on Monday ridiculed Congress Member of Parliament Gurudas Kamat, who has demanded his arrest for backing her.

"Whenever Congressmen have feats of Muslim appeasement, they dream of my arrest," Thackeray said in an editorial in the Sena mouthpiece Saamana.

Speaking at a function held in Mumbai recently to felicitate Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on his government completing four years in office, Kamat had said Thackeray should be put in jail for supporting the Sadhvi.

"Even Deshmukh must have squirmed when Kamat made this demand," the octogenarian Thackeray, whose son Uddhav now virtually manages Sena affairs, said.

"The blast case is being probed under pressure and attempt is being made to brand people as ‘Hindu terrorists’," Thackeray, who had last month demanded that troops be sent inside mosques to flush out Islamic militants, said.

Stating that he had never been afraid of being arrested, Thackeray asked the government to clarify whether he would be arrested for supporting Hindus in ‘Hindustan’ or for thwarting danger to the Marathi pride in Maharashtra.

Thackeray recalled that when late Chief Minister Vasantrao Naik had got him arrested and sent to Pune’s Yerwada jail, there was arson in Maharashtra and he had to appeal for peace.

"Hindutva forces would not be crushed and your Muslim vote bank would not be strengthened if you arrest me in connection with the Sadhvi case," Thackeray said.

Source:  Rediffnews.com

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We should be proud of Sadhvi Pragya: Balasaheb Thackeray

Kartik Shuddha Chaturthi

Coming out in support of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and other Malegaon blasts accused, Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray on Saturday lashed out at pro-Hindutva elements for ‘disowning’ them and asked the legal community to come forward to defend the trio.

‘The entire Hindu community should support the Sadhvi, retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay and Samir Kulkarni who are being framed by the Anti-Terrorist Squad,’ Balasaheb Thackeray said in his trademark fiery editorial in the Sena mouthpiece Saamna.

Thackeray said he did not support any kind of terrorism that ‘weakens the country and we regret the loss of life in the Malegaon incident.

‘But if the pseudo secularists in the country are supportive of Afzal Guru (Parliament attack convict), why should we not love and be proud of Sadhvi Pragya, Ramesh Upadhyay and Samir Kulkarni?’

‘Every day Islamic terrorists are planting bombs to kill Hindus in India. The latest blasts in Assam too were engineered by Bangladeshi migrants. If a Sadhvi Pragya or a Ramesh Upadhyay or a Samir Kulkarni is born in the present milieu, they cannot be blamed,’ it added.

Alleging that the ATS machinery was being used at the behest of the Congress, which is practicing politics of Muslim appeasement, it said, ‘the arrests of cultured and educated individuals in connection with the Malegaon blasts is an effort to crush Hindus to please Muslim fanatics in the country.’

The editorial also lambasted pro-Hindutva organisations for what it called ‘disowning’ the trio.

‘If Chhatrapati Shivaji and Veer Savarkar were alive today, they would suffer bouts of depression to see the passive tolerance of Islamic intimidation by Hindus,’ the Sena chief said.

The editorial ends with a poser. ‘If a Majid Memon puts on the black coat to defend brother of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in a court of law, can we expect another Memon to stand up to argue for Sadhvi Pragya, Upadhyay and Kulkarni?’

Source: Rediff

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