Dont mess with my uncle: Raj Thackeray

Raj Thackeray has threatened not to allow any official or people's representative from UP and Bihar to enter Mumbai.

MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Monday threatened not to allow any official or people’s representative from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to enter Mumbai if Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray is summoned by Lok Sabha Privileges Committee for his ‘intemperate’ utterances against Members of Parliament.

“No official or people’s representative from UP and Bihar will be allowed to set foot in Mumbai”, Raj said.

Commenting on media reports that the Committee headed by senior Congress MP V Kishore Chandra Deo has decided to call the Sena supremo after Diwali next month, Raj said “Delhi (the Central government) will have to first take lives of the 11 crore Marathi people”.

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“I will be the first to face this notice against the Sena chief who is the great leader of Maharashtra and is also my uncle”, Raj said in a statement.

“This (notice issue) is beyond party politics”, Raj, who parted ways from Sena and formed his own party two years ago, said, warning that ‘rivers of blood will flow’ on the issue.

The Committee last had month got recorded evidence of some members who had raised a breach of privilege against the Shiv Sena chief.

In an editorial in the party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Bal Thackeray, who is the Editor of the daily, had attacked MPs from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for what allegedly launching an anti-Marathi tirade in Parliament.

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Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari had last month referred the breach of privilege issue against Raut, a Rajya Sabha MP, to the Committee for examination following a reference from Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee.