Thane: MNS chief Raj Thackeray has said the Thane district is witnessing a mass influx of people, who indulge in ‘illegal’ activities.
“No one knows what is going on in Maharashtra and especially here. This district is witnessing a mass influx of people who are engaged in all kinds of illegal activities… Issues like land grabbing too are unattended,” Raj said on Sunday night while addressing a rally in support of party candidate Pramod Patil from the Kalyan Lok Sabha seat.
“It has conveniently ignored the instances of atrocities committed on Biharis in Assam while singling me out,” he said.
The MNS chief said that no MP from the state ever tried to protect the ‘swabhiman (self respect)’ of Maharashtrians.
“I have declared my support for BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi with this intention only…What is wrong to raise voice in the interest of people and get their issues redressed,” he said.
“My hands are clean, my mind is clean and my thoughts are clean. I do not live in a house of glass,” the MNS chief said.
On his recent TV interview, he said, “I shouted at the journalist concerned because he was not maintaining decorum…I am under nobody’s obligation and can never be cowed down.”
Kalyan Lok Sabha seat, which comprises fringe townships of Ambernath, Kalyan-east, Ulhasnagar, Dombivali, Mumbra-Kalwa and Kalyan Rural, is currently represented by Shiv Sena rebel and now the NCP nominee Anand Paranjape.
