The Shiv Sena on Tuesday defended founder Bal Thackeray’s ideology, saying he created “a fear of Hindus” solely in “national interest” and hit out at a weekly magazine for its article against the late party supremo.
“People have lot of love and respect for Balasaheb Thackeray and feel proud of his nationalist ideals. He surely instilled the fear of Hindus among people,” an editorial in the Sena mouthpiece Saamana said, rubbishing contents of an article published in the magazine.
Sainiks torch magazineSena workers had on Monday staged a protest in South Mumbai against the magazine, tearing and torching its copies. A case was also filed in adjoining Thane district in connection with the article.
The outfit said: “Hindus should be able to live in this country with pride and his (a Hindu’s) voice should roar like that of a lion. If an answer has to be given to Pakistan extremists, Hindus will also [have] to become highly religious.” “To answer Pakistan, Hindus need to become human bombs and invade their country,” it said in controversial remarks.
Defending the ideology of Thackeray, the Sena said: “If his stand that Pakistani extremists should be responded [to] in their own terms can be called terrorism, then this kind of terrorism was in national interest.”