Hailing the "Mumbai model" and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, Raut called for the need to replicating this model elsewhere in the country.

"India has gone back by at least 20 years due to the pandemic. I don't know how much forward it marched in the past 5-10 years, but the country's economy and social and political systems have collapsed. Now only the struggle for existence is on. We will have to put up a big fight to stand up again," the Sena spokesperson said.