New Delhi: The All India Minorities Front (AIMF) on Tuesday said it would launch a nationwide agitation against Raj Thackeray if the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader didn’t stop targeting north Indians and non-Maharashtrians.
AIMF President S M Asif alleged Raj was “bent upon breaking the country” and he was surprised by the silence of the Central and Maharashtra Governments.
"The madness of Raj Thackeray has reached its height, and such insane acts of a person of unstable mind who is bent upon breaking the country in the name of support of a handful of fundamentalists, cannot and should not be tolerated and needs to be reciprocated in the same voice," said Asif.
He said that if the attacks on North Indians did not stop within the next 72 hours in Maharashtra, the AIMF would start targeting Maharashtrians in other states.
Asif's warning came as the general secretary of the Nasik unit of the MNS, Vasant Gite was detained on Wednesday. Three other MNS leaders were also taken into preventive custody.
The total number of arrests in Nasik has gone up to 126 since Tuesday, a police official said.
Though Raj Thackeray and and Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi were granted bail after being charged with promoting enmity between groups, the states of Maharashtra, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh remain tense in the expectation of a further fallout from the agitation of the past four days.
Reports said Thackeray was granted conditional bail on furnishing a bond of Rs 15,000. Granting bail, the court asked Thackeray not to speak to media and move out in a group of more than five persons.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil said that Raj Thackeray's arrest showed that the state government will not let anyone take law into his own hands.
Thackeray and Azmi were booked under sections 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot), 153 A (promoting enmity between groups on the basis of place of birth, residence, etc) and 153 B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration).
t the situation is under control, but violence has been reported at Nasik, Dahisar, Pune, Pimpri and Chinwad in Maharashtra. (ANI)
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