After the bloodletting, the blood donation

Gawli refused the blood donor’s card issued to him by the KEM blood bank. He also announced that the ABS had adopted the hospital’s blood bank for a month. However, he had no answer when asked how he would raise funds for its maintenance. He maintained that sound financial background would be the main criteria while appointing leaders to run ABS shakhas.

The shakhas are likely to pit his ABS directly against the ruling Shiv Sena. The don knows it. And as his supporters milled around him making important noises, he launched a scathing but rather directionless attack on politicians of all hues. But, before his audience could lose interest, he focussed on his once-supporter-and-now-bete-noire Bal Thackeray. When asked to describe the Shiv Sena leader in one line, he said: “Thackeray is a dictator.”

He said the slum redevelopment scheme was a complete flop and accused that the builders were making money out of it. He also refused that Thackeray ever helped him as a Hindu answer to Dawood Ibrahim. He also alleged that the state government and the police were working at the instance of Dawood.

He said the the alliance government was worse than the Congress regime in as far as the corruption was concerned. He reiterated the fear of being killed by the police.y