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...chief Raj Thackeray today came under all round fire for threatening to throw out Biharis from Maharashtra even as a case was filed against him in Nalanda for his hate speech. A complaint was registered against the MNS chief in Nalanda district court by a social...
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...strong action against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his comments against people of Bihar, Bahujan Samaj Party on Sunday accused the Maharashtra government of taking a "lenient view" of such incidents. "The situation in Maharashtra is so because the state government...
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...against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his comments against people of Bihar. NEW DELHI: Seeking strong action against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his comments against people of Bihar, Bahujan Samaj Party today accused the Maharashtra government of taking a "lenient...
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...statement of Thackeray. "We had given a notice in the House today for suspension of question hour for taking the issue of Raj Thackeray. Just for his own little ambition he wants to divide the society in the name of region and SP strongly condemns it," he...
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...strong action against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his comments against people of Bihar, Bahujan Samaj Party today accused the Maharashtra government of taking a "lenient view" of such incidents. "The situation in Maharashtra is so because the state government...
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...the state," Raj Thackeray warned on Sunday while reacting on the letter written by the Bihar Chief Secretary Navin Kumar to Mumbai Police Commissioner Satyapal. Raj Thackeray also threatened to close down Hindi news channels in Maharashtra. OneIndia News...
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...and drew parallels with the rise of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale in Punjab during the terror days there. "This (the conduct of Raj Thackeray) is a challenge to the Constitutional authority. Thackeray says in Azad Maidan of Mumbai that the police commissioner...
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...Thackeray's public meeting earlier this week was clearly in preparation for the 2014 assembly elections. By reiterating that for him Maharashtra was the lone religion, he showed he was toeing neither the Hindutva line, nor the Marathi Manoos for electoral...
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...As India’s ace cricketer ‘Very Very Special’ or VVS Laxman called it a day, a firebrand Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray began a new chapter in his political career – through moderately successful image management that projected him as...
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Yet, the rally has so far been peaceful with no untoward incident. Dhaval Kulkarni who walked along with the protestors said MNS supporters walked all the way shouting anti-RR Patil and anti-Arup Patnaik slogans. Raj Thackeray has currently reached Metro
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Mumbai: Raj Thackeray today visited his uncle, Bal Thackeray at Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital, where the latter was admitted yesterday for breathlessness. 86-year-old Bal Thackeray, who heads the Shiv Sena, is in ICU and will undergo tests. He is expected t
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How does someone threaten the state machinery and get away with it? If you don't know the answer, head over to MNS chief Raj Thackeray's house. He has a ready reckoner for all those who care. On Tuesday, Thackeray asked people to stop paying toll unless
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...Feb 25: MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday, Feb 25, surrendered before a court here in connection with rioting case registered against him in 2008. The court released him on a bail of Rs 15,000 in all the four cases registered against him in 2008. The MNS...
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...of days ago sharing the dais with Pakistani artistes and reciting poems. If Khan has to apologise, then why not Bachchan," Raj Thackeray asked at a press conference here. Raj Thackeray, the estranged nephew of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, questioned the...
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For a three-year-old party to diminish the aura surrounding a four-decade-old outfit that has been synonymous with Marathi pride so far, was a mammoth task but Raj Thackeray [ Images ] and his Maharashtra Navanirman Sena did just that. The MNS dashed
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...[ Images ]). Why should we not take revenge," he said. Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray trained his guns Raj Thackeray, dubbing him as an "agent" of the ruling Congress-NCP in Maharashtra. Addressing an election rally in Thane, Uddhav said his...
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...Desperation is a sign of failed imagination. You think in terms of resources, but not what you have, what you lack. When Raj Thackeray formed the Maharashtra Nav Nirman Sena in 2006, one of the things he harped on was the state's development. What he has done...
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Times of India
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...is also the battle between NCP's rebels against the Congress. You may also want to see But the real fight is between Raj Thackeray, 41, the firebrand chief of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), and Uddhav Thackeray, 49, the gentlemanly Shiv Sena leader,...
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...MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday called his estranged nephew Raj Thackeray a "modern day Jinnah" playing into the hands of the Congress to divide the sons of the soil. In an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamna', Thackeray senior said there...
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...this aim, it has taken the support of a 'naalayak aulaad' (unworthy child) like Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (led by Raj Thackeray)," the editorial said. Warning that this would be a dangerous game, Thackeray said the Muslim League and Mohammed Ali Jinnah,...
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Mumbai, Sep 30: Shiv Sena supremo, Bal Thackeray likened his nephew Raj Thackeray to Pakistan's founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, after drawing parallels between the two based on separatist ideologies.
In an editorial in the party's mouthpiece, Sena chief
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OH BROTHER! The run-up to Maharashtra Assembly elections promises fireworks between the Thackeray cousins.
Two senas are fighting tooth and nail for the Marathi vote in the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections. Leaders of the two sena â Shiv Sena
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...you call the national language. Rajdeep Sardesai: Do you feel that in today's India, the campaign against migrants is right? Raj Thackeray: You won't go to other states and tell them this. You will only come to Maharashtra to tell us. The kind of people who...
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...Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has ridiculed his estranged nephew Raj Thackeray over the manner in which the latter had taken up the cause of Marathi people. "What these people are doing cannot be compared to what I did for the sake of Marathi people," 83-year...
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Hindustan Times
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...you provide will not be used for any purpose other than to inform the recipient(s) of your identity. (*mandatory field) Raj Thackeray, who was accompanied by his wife, moved an application saying he was surrendering. MNS chief Raj Thackeray was arrested...
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...him to surrender before the court concerned by June end. Mumbai, Feb 3: Taking on Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray~~s alleged remarks against Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, his wife and Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan tonight said...
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...its supremo Raj Thackeray's birthday on Sunday, May 14. However the speciality of this year's birthday celebrations of Raj Thackeray is that the MNS chief is not just expecting good wishes more Mumbai, May 19: After questioning the Marathi community on Shiv...
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...executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday was uncharacteristically angry while refuting cousin, and MNS chief, Raj Thackeray's recent allegations that the Sena no longer stood for the Marathi people. You may also want to see Raj said this was clear...
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DNA India
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Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray today lashed out at estranged cousin and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray and asked him to stop accusing him and his father Bal Thackeray in his speeches.
Uddhav was reacting to Raj's
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Though no political pundit gave Raj Thackeray and his three-year-old party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, much attention in the state, the MNS has emerged as a force to reckon with. And nobody can vouch for this -- brave media posturing
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MUMBAI: So, what explains Raj
Thackeray’s appeal?
"He is seen as having provided lost
identity for not only the young average Maharastrian but also for those from
other communities like Dalits, Buddhists and even Muslims born in Mumbai who
feel
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Raj praised Modi's efforts that contributed to development of Gujarat.
A remark by Maharashtra Navnriman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray advocating Narendra Modi's candidature for Prime Minstership, has fuelled speculations on a possible
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When Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray launched his campaign in Nashik on March 21 with a vitriolic speech against North Indian migrants, there was an unwelcome sense of déjÀ vu for this city’s North Indian community.
It was only in
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More than a few eyebrows were raised when people thought they saw Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on the dais at a Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) rally in Thane. Was it really Raj Thackeray?
Even as the organisers were
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MUMBAI: The Nashik police on Sunday registered an offence under section 153 A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray for his offensive remarks on North Indians at the launch of his partys Lok
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BOKARO (Jharkhand): A Bokaro court
issued a non-bailable warrant against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj
Thackeray, accused of fomenting enmity among classes through his anti-North
Indian campaign, and asked the Maharastra police to arrest and
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Times of India
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Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray called Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar "dhoka yantra" (dangerous instrument) for his unpredictable political moves.
But the just launched MNS website (www.manase.org )
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DNA India
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray Friday morning called on his ailing estranged uncle, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, at the Lilavati Hospital here.
After meeting the 82-year-old Shiv Sena chief, Raj Thackeray told reporters that
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...DAY is still fresh when Raj Thackeray split from his uncle, Balasaheb Thackeray and founded the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). The rank and file of the Sena was shocked. NDTV had carried a survey which stated that more than 75 per cent of the party cadre...
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THERE WAS a bonanza for couch potatoes sitting in front of TV screens or office computers last month. It was not some day-night cricket stuff to shout and express their ’loyalty to the motherland’. They had 24x7 adventure fare as Mumbai reeled under a
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Mumbai, Dec 1: When the commercial city, Mumbai was soaked in blood by brutal terrorist attacks, MNS chief Raj Thackeray remained mum over the situation. Reacting to his silence, there were scathing SMS messages and blogs that were overfilled with
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...AS Mumbai kept burning for last three days, Raj Thackeray, the patron saint, who claims to have special rights to protect the interests of the Maximum city ’Mumbai’ has kept surprisingly silent. ” What has shocked the people...
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...Jaidev, wrote a column in Sena mouthpiece Saamana. Smita Thackeray [Images], who was married to Jaidev, is a filmmaker. Raj Thackeray has often said that he picked up cartooning from his illustrious uncle. "I stayed at home and learnt from Saheb. When you...
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Mumbai, Nov 24: Other than the uncle-nephew relationship, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray share two qualities -- both are good cartoonists and have publicly expressed their
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray [Images], in limelight for 'hijacking' Shiv Sena's 'Marathi pride' agenda, today met his uncle and Sena chief Bal Thackeray [Images], their first meeting since he left the Sena and launched MNS in 200
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THE RECENT attacks organized by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on North Indians have been strongly criticized and condemned. Be it the encounter of Rahul Raj, the worker beaten to death, Dharmadev Rai or the Pande and the
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Just check headlines in Indias national as well as regional media flashing for last few days.
Raj's politics is destructive: NDTV
Now double threat to Raj Thackeray: DNA
The many faces of Goonda Raj: Hindustan Times
Raj Thackeray playing dirty
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...complaint was forwarded to the Mumbai police commissioner for instituting a case against Raj Thackeray and others. Raj Thackeray was charged of instigating a mob to attack Choudhary and others in Mumbai. Police sources said the complaint has merit to be lodged...
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THE PRIME Minister Dr Manmohan Singh managed to fulfill his wish to ink the Indo-American nuclear deal but, his another burning desire of transforming Mumbai to a major financial centre of the world remains unfulfilled. After the recent siege of Mumbai
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