At his aggressive best in recent times, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for posing a real threat to Hindutva, invading the sovereignty of the states, and hurting opposition leaders and their families by using Central agencies, in a bid to wrest power by hook or crook. Thackeray was addressing the Shiv Sena’s annual Dussehra rally at Matunga’s Shanmukhananda Auditorium. He appealed to party workers to do a West Bengal in Maharashtra, and get all Hindus - Marathi and non-Marathi - together to beat the BJP’s designs of divide and rule.

Sena unbreakable
“My citadel is unbreakable. If there are efforts to attack the Thackeray family, we teach them a lesson then and there. Skulls will break, but there won’t be any crack in the walls of my citadel,” he said, referring to the use of Central agencies. “We will complete two years in the government next month. Bring down my government if you are so brave, without using agencies like CBI and ED,” he challenged the BJP, saying the game of ‘raiding people for political revenge’ will not last long. He called people behind the ‘evil design’ impotent and power addicts.