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Mumbai:
Lashing out at Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan "Khan" over
the
security
provided for "My Name Is Khan", Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray
Saturday wondered whether he was the bodyguard of Bollywood megastar
Shah
Rukh Khan.
"If he is a
bodyguard, then he should don a security personnel's uniform, and
stand outside Khan's 'Mannat' bungalow and salute passersby,"
Thackeray said in a vitriolic editorial in Saamna, the party's
mouthpiece, a day after the Sena-versus-"MNIK" imbroglio.
According
to Thackeray, during the past seven-eight days when Chavan was busy
providing security to the superstar and his
movie,
eight farmers had committed suicide in Vidarbha region of
Maharashtra.
"Instead of
worrying about the suicides in Marathwada-Vidarbha-Khandesh (north
Maharashtra), was it more important to ensure the release of Khan's
stupid movie?" he demanded in the edit.
The state's
police force was "blatantly deployed" as if they were the "slaves
and servants" of Khan and they arrested Shiv Sainiks.
"Was the
movie based on the lives of heroes like Vasudev Balwant Phadke,
Swatantraveer Savarkar or the Queen Laxmibai of Jhansi for requiring
provision of so much security cover? What was achieved by exhibiting
Khan's love lore for Pakistan in a handful of cinema halls under the
cover of AK-47s?" he wondered.
The police
"seemed to have forgotten that they are also from Maharashtra" and
the party promised to "expose" the police department.
Thackeray
warned that if the police continued to target Shiv Sainiks in this
manner, soon the country would turn "green" (referring to the colour
of
Islam),
the police headquarters would become a "Hari Masjid" (Green Mosque)
and the top police officials would become its "Imams" (Muslim
clergy).
All the
drama under tight security was not an act of bravery on the part of
the police but enacted merely to keep Congress party chief Sonia
Gandhi and "Prince" Rahul Gandhi happy and it would "prove to be
your nemesis", the editorial held.
"And Shah
Rukh Khan is not even someone like the great, towering patriot, Khan
Abdul Gaffar Khan, but have the police even heard the latter's
name?"
At this
rate, the 20 brave police officials who were martyred in the 26/11,
2008, terror attacks need not be termed as "martyrs", instead,
Chavan should declare the nine Pakistani terrorists killed in the
gunbattle as "new martyrs", construct a marble memorial for them and
salute them daily, said Thackeray.
Besides
losing their mental balance in the entire Khan episode, "Ashok (Chavan)
Khan" and Congressmen even had their belts come off, making it a
complete "vastraharan" (disrobing), the edit said.
Even as the
chief minister and Home Minister "Khan" (R.R. Patil) watched the
"nude dance" (movie), five more farmers committed suicide in
Vidarbha, according to Thackeray.
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