Only 10 days after a hate-filled speech in Dadar, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Chief Raj Thackeray reiterated with his demand for removal of loudspeakers from masjids, this time while addressing a gathering in Thane on April 12, 2022.

Speaking in Marathi, he lashed out against the use of loudspeakers by mosques all through the year. Thackeray asked, “It is Ramzan at present. We understand. We also have Ganpati and Navratri festivals. But why are you making us listen to this [prayers] 365 days a year?” Claiming that there was no use for loudspeakers, he demanded that the Maharashtra state government ensure their removal from mosques to prevent “tedh, dangal” (Translation: division, riots).

“May 3 is Eid. I appeal to the state government and the Home Ministry, that we don’t want to create any division, riots etc. We don’t want to spoil the health of Maharahtra,” said Thackeray, the chilling threat evident in his words. He continued, “But today is April 12 and from now untill May 3, I urge you to call all Maulvis and tell them to take down all loudspeakers from mosques. (If you do so) after May 3, you will not face any trouble from us.” The gathering cheered him on.

His demand is at odds with his own argument that loudspeakers should be used on important occasions. Nonetheless, he continues saying that namaz, azan and similar prayers read inside the houses because “religion should be inside homes”.

Further, he went on to warn the Muslim community that if they do not understand “words” then “Hindus” will take “action” and play Hanuman Chalisa outside mosques in Maharashtra. Later he went on to extend this call to all of India.

“We are not ruining the environment. This is a social issue not a religious one. Students, elderly and women alike complain about this. There can be no religion that bothers the other,” he argued.

To Thackeray’s credit there have been arguments against the use of loudspeakers for namaz and other prayers. However, the contention has been equally frivolous like ‘interrupted yoga or sleep’. The party Chief too took similar cheap shots during his speech at the quality of singing that in his opinion were just noise. Claiming that people from within the Muslim community have agreed with him, he argued that the party will not back down on this, no matter what the government says. During the event, he cited previous speech on January 23, 2020, August 1, 2018 and July 28 of the same year wherein he repeatedly voiced the removal of loudspeakers. He also cited the July 2005 Supreme Court order that argued against the use of loudspeakers if it proved to be a hindrance. Thackeray claimed that the state government ignored this order for the sake of votes.

It may be noted, that ex-MNS member Pune’s Katraj Corporator Vasant More clearly rejected this call by the party Chief outrightly stating that he could not betray the Muslim community that voted for him. Meanwhile, Maharashtra BJP official Mohit Kamboj has taken the call as a personal notice and promised to provide loudspeakers to temples interested in playing the Hanuman Chalisa.

मंदिर में लगाने के लिए जिसको लाउड स्पीकर ( भोंगे ) चाहिए वो निशुल्क हमसे माँग सकता हैं !
सभी हिंदू की एक आवाज़ होनी चाहिए !

मंदिरावर हनुमान चालिसा यासाठी भोंगे आम्ही देवू ज्यांना लावायचे आहेत त्यांना !
हिंदु एकता आवाज आलाच पाहिजे !

जय श्री राम ! हर हर महादेव !

— Mohit Kamboj Bharatiya – मोहित कंबोज भारतीय (@mohitbharatiya_) April 4, 2022

Since then, his feed is ridden with images of him sitting in the middle of many loudspeakers. As for the government, the Hindustan Times reported that authorities condemned Thackeray’s remarks and asked all political parties not to make divisive comments.

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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Chief Raj Thackeray spewed venom against madrasas in Mumbai on April 2, 2022 demanding that loudspeakers be taken down by mosques, or they would install larger ones outside to play Hanuman Chalisa.

During a rally at Shivaji Park on Gudi Padwa, the Party Chief lashed out against Muslims, interestingly checking all the boxes with his words to satisfy the criteria of a Bharatiya Janata Party-inspired (BJP) hate speech. On a day that marks the beginning of a new year for the Hindu community, Thackeray demanded that the government take down loudspeakers inside masjids.

 “These masjid speakers have to be taken down. The government has to take this decision. Otherwise, there will be speakers erected double-in-height right in front of masjids, blaring Hanuman Chalisa,” he said.

Claiming that he has nothing against faith, the MNS leader still asked that Muslim “not bother us”. He also challenged the use of the electronic inside the religious establishment asking “which dharma demands loudspeaker? Were there loudspeakers before? Follow your faith inside houses. Everyone should keep their faith inside their houses.”

Loudspeakers are used by the community for azaans or “the call to prayer” for other Muslims. Earlier, Allahabad University Vice Chancellor Sangita Srivastava, singer Sonu Nigam and Uttar Pradesh Minister Anand Swaroop Shukla had voiced complaints against the prayers owing to ‘interrupted sleep or yoga’. However, Thackeray’s speech comes days before Ramzan, the Islamic month of fasting, prayer, reflection and community.

Add to that the fact that his speech touched upon Pakistan, loudspeaker, Hindu-unity, Muslim role in increasing slums – common points in BJP and other RSS-affiliated groups’ speeches – raises the question of what happened to the leader who in 2019 was openly vocal against the BJP.

During the Lok Sabha elections, the MNS party joined the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) against the BJP. However, he adopted a pro-Hindutva attitude post-Lok Sabha elections putting up “Proud to be Hindu” posters in Mumbai during Dussehra in 2020. By Saturday, Thackeray had begun singing praises of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s (Ajay Bisht) development-related work. He even asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for help in addressing the developmental issues in Maharashtra.

His 180-degree turn garnered criticisms from Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and even NCP Chief Sharad Pawar. Both Pednekar and Raut called the move a political stunt to recite a speech created by the nationally ruling regime. According to Times of India, Pawar said that Thackeray “stays underground for three to four months and suddenly surfaces to give a lecture. This is his speciality. I don’t know what he does for months.”

Indeed, the MNS is known to be openly-hostile to the presence of north-Indians in Maharashtra, allegedly driving away non-Maharashtrian hawkers. Yet there is no social harmony drive of note by the MNS that justifies or even balances Thackeray’s vapid speech against masjids and madrasas. Pawar pointed out that the MNS’s lack of engagement with the people is also apparent from the voting percentage.

Regarding madrasas, Thackeray said, “When will we come together as Hindus? Police have sources that say madrasas within slums have a lot in store behind their walls. There are many madrasas where we do not know what happens inside. All these people came with encouragement from Pakistan.”

He blamed Pakistan and Indian Muslims for the growing number of slums in the financial capital, accusing the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) of helping “Pakistanis and Bangladeshis” get Aadhaar cards and ration cards. Inciting communal sentiments, he claimed that people will “regret” not paying attention to the madrasas in India and what they “have in store”.

Some time ago, India Today published a similar story that alleged illegal activity in madrasas. It wasn’t until Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) filed a complaint that it emerged that the reportage had a distinct communal colour and misrepresented facts, as it turned out madrasas were in fact helping during the pandemic by offering refuge to orphaned children. At a time when the Muslim community is slowly leaving behind accusations of “Corona spreaders” it is unfortunate that state-level politicians are trying to divide society communally once again.

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Mumbai: The catchphrase of “Laav re video” (play that video) has become a hit on Maharashtrian social media. The man behind that phrase even more so.
 
Even without contesting a single seat in the Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections, MNS chief Raj Thackeray has become the sole bone of contention and opposition for the BJP-Shiv Sena combine. His series of rallies across Maharashtra coupled with fake news busting videos and an acerbic tongue caught the incumbent government by surprise before the fourth phase of elections that concluded polling in the state.
 
Thackeray has not fielded a single candidate of his 13-year-old party, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), for any of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state. That is why BJP and Shiv Sena could not prepare for the blitzkrieg that was to come.
 
Thackeray did what nobody could imagine much less execute. He single-handedly threw the BJP-Sena alliance in Maharashtra off the rails. He spoke against the Modi-Shah duo to expose their alleged lies, took on its own main opposition Shiv Sena, did not take sides or ask for votes for any opposition party and managed to keep his core constituency happy by keeping his son of the soil narrative intact while also pleasing left liberals.
 
After the elections wrapped in Maharashtra, BJP’s rivals invited Thackeray to hold rallies in other poll-bound states. However, he is unlikely to move out of Maharashtra. Raj Thackeray received invitations from Congress, Janata Dal (Secular), Haryana Vikas Party and a couple of community organisations in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Karnataka to address rallies but he has rebuffed all offers because he achieved what he set out to do- create ripples in Maharashtra politics.
 
“The BJP attempted to take him on but without much success. Modi can neither join his fight nor ignore it. Fadnavis attempted to fill the gap but Thackeray demolished his arguments in following rallies; education minister Vinod Tawde asked the Election Commission to check Thackeray’s expenditure on rallies but that came to a cropper because Thackeray does not have candidates or their photos on the dais. The Shiv Sena is confused because Raj, its leaders’ bete-noire, speaks everything that Uddhav wants to about Modi-Shah, but cannot,” Economic Times reported.
 
“Raj Thackeray has nothing to lose,” said Bharat Kumar Raut, a political analyst to Sabrang India. “He has no stake or ambition in Lok Sabha. Even if he misses out in the assembly elections, he has nothing to lose. Both Congress and NCP reached rock bottom in 2014. The only way to go now is up,” he said.
 
So what did Raj Thackeray do to invite such a response?
 
Fact checking in rallies
Thackeray first unveiled a unique pattern with his annual Gudi Padwa (Maharashtrian New Year on 6 April) rally at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park. In the following two weeks, he spoke at rallies in Nanded, Satara, Ichalkaranji, Pune, Solapur, and Raigad, and sharpened his speeches for half a dozen more towns and cities before campaigning in the state ended.
 
He started with video presentations on the failures of the current dispensation by naming and shaming the Modi-Shah duo. He openly accused PM Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah of lying to voters and used statistics, newspaper reports and onground interviews by his party colleagues to convey their policy failures.
 
In his rallies, he criticized the government for corruption (Rafale jet controversy), compromising the judiciary (the death of Justice BH Loya) and independent institutions (resignation of RBI governors), withholding data (National Crime Records Bureau and unemployment statistics) and politicising cross-border conflict. At one point, he showed a photograph of a family a BJP fan-page has claimed were beneficiaries of Modi’s anti-poverty initiatives, Economic Times reported.
 
He then called the family on stage and said that the BJP IT Cell stole their private photo off Facebook and used it as part of its propaganda.
 
“I am running this campaign because these two [Modi and Shah] are a threat to the nation,” Thackeray said towards the end. “If you vote for the BJP, you vote for these two. If you vote for the Shiv Sena, you still vote for these two. If you want to ensure that democracy survives, you need to sideline them. Don’t forget this,” he said in his rallies according to the ET report.
 
Thackeray also fact-checked BJPs ‘first digital village’ of Maharashtra claim from Harisal. He also invited a youth who had featured in one of the government ads for Harisal, on his campaign stage.
 
According to Dhaval Kulkarni, a senior political journalist who writes about MNS, Raj Thackeray is trying to ride the anti-incumbency wave before the assembly elections. “He wanted to secure a political opening. He is a charismatic leader and a great crowd puller. He used the rising resentment within the Shiv Sena ranks to his benefit without even talking about the party. The Sainiks are showing signs of disillusion with their leadership due to the constant back and forth with the BJP alliance and the lack of clarity. Many Sena leaders have admitted in private that he is the only good influential opposition right now. He obviously benefitted the opposition but what he got was what he needed the most. The reactions from the crowd,” he told Sabrang India.
 
“Raj had nowhere to go. Had he contested now, he would have definitely lost. He would have lost his status as a force to be reckoned with in state politics. So the first shocker came when he said that he won’t contest. He then launched a campaign against Modi and Shah. He did not even mention Sena. With his oratory and crowd-pulling power, he held 23 meetings in Maharashtra. He put up a grand show which had about one lakh spectators at each rally. He had slideshows and ‘Laav re video’ became a popular catchphrase. He calculated every move and warmed up his chances for the October assembly elections. Had he contested, he would have lost and would nowhere to hide his face. Instead, now he is the hero of the whole campaign,” Raut told Sabrang India.
 
Didn’t he support BJP five years ago?
“Five years ago, Thackeray had voluntarily declared his support for Modi’s bid for prime ministership. It had come after a nine-day ‘study tour’ of Gujarat. The people of Gujarat, he had said at the time, were “fortunate” to have Modi at the helm, focussed on the development of the state,” ET reported.
 
“The bureaucrats I met were planted there to feed me [positive] information,” he said in an interview. “The overall picture emerged only later,” he said in his rallies
 
“For all his disdain for PM Modi, Raj Thackeray’s politics has more similarities with the PM’s than he cares to admit. Both parties revolve around the cult of a strongman whose profile and electoral fortunes rose following violent clashes between two communities.  While Modi had de-emphasised his Hindutva moorings with a high-decibel narrative on Gujarat’s economic development in the run-up to the previous Lok Sabha elections, the MNS never completely shed its anti-migrant, xenophobic politics in spite of a successful debut in the Maharashtra assembly polls in 2009. By 2014, its seats in the 288-member assembly had shrunk from 12 to one,” ET reported.
 
“In essence, it is impossible to overlook the hypocrisy of Raj Thackeray calling out the BJP for divisive politics. But his onstage charisma, facility for oratory, and an innate knack for salty barbs and earthy humour, reminiscent of his uncle, Bal Thackeray, helps,” the report said.
 
According to Kulkarni, there is also an unconfirmed suspicion that BJP is also supporting him to divide the vote bank against Shiv Sena, which helps it cement its own singular power in the state. “Sena is an impediment to the BJP expansion in Maharashtra as both of them are essentially competing for the same vote base. It would be a natural progression to move onto the more famous and vocal cousin. In Maharashtra, it is difficult to say which way the voters will swing but small parties with a committed vote base can make a difference,” he told Sabrang India.
 
Sharad Pawar’s Game of Thrones
Political analysts credit Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar for Thackeray’s recent political revival. Last month, several media outlets quoted anonymous NCP leaders on their willingness to tie up with MNS. The deal, however, fell through after the Congress, its alliance partner, opposed it on ideological grounds. Even without an outright endorsement, it’s the Opposition led by the Congress and the NCP that stand to be the biggest beneficiaries of Thackeray’s popular tirades, ET reported.
 
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis called Thackeray a “parrot reading out Pawar’s script”.
 
“Who can blame him if he gets support from Sharad Pawar? Why wouldn’t Pawar want to ally with him seeing his success recently? It would be foolish to think that Raj is so impressionable and impish that he would parrot someone else’s script,” Kulkarni said.
 
Raut disagreed and said that would be wrong to assume that Sharad Pawar is behind this. “It was not preconceived. He came around after seeing the initial success of the crowd pulling rallies. Seeing the response, he encouraged Raj Thackeray. Everyone else simply jumped into the bandwagon.”
 
“Liberals or seculars seem to be enjoying Thackeray’s splendid performance. He has done his outsourced job perfectly, thanks to Sharad Pawar who convinced him to conduct a tour against Modi-Shah. Pawar is an astute politician who understands the strength and weaknesses of friends and foes. He knew Thackeray’s charisma would do wonders. He did not disappoint him, in fact with every public meeting, his attack on Modi-Shah became sharper. Initially, Pawar wanted Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena adjusted in the Congress-NCP alliance. But Congress did not agree by saying that it would drive away North Indian voters. Ironically, Congress leaders Ashok Chavan or former Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde were the first to demand for Thackeray’s mesmerising meetings,” Nikhil Wagle, a veteran journalist wrote in an article.
 
Modi had earlier targeted Pawar in the state during his visits as he is seen as the biggest player in Maharashtra politics and also had a key role in bringing the grand alliance of Opposition parties together against the BJP at the national level.
 
On Raj Thackeray’s rallies, Author Keshav Waghmare, who has a good understanding of Maharashtra politics said, “Pawar and Thackeray had planned these rallies in advance. This was actually for the state elections. Thackeray’s speeches are a rehearsal of Assembly election campaign.”
 
“Pawar and Thackeray are helping each other according to this plan. These speeches will help NCP more than the Congress in the Lok Sabha polls. By attacking Modi, Thackeray is also defending Pawar and improving his own image too for the upcoming state elections,” he said in a report by Newslaundry.
 
How do these rallies help Raj Thackeray?
According to Raut, Raj has played a smart trick. “If you look at his past, he came up with a wonderful promise. He won 13 seats. In BMC he got 727 seats. All the Lok Sabha candidates from his party had received 2 lakh votes each. He won the Nashik Municipal elections. The mayor of Nashik was his candidate. But he could not sustain that pace. In 2014, MNS had just one seat in the assembly and 7 seats in the municipal corporation. Out of which 6 people in Mumbai defected to Shiv Sena. Even the one seat in the assembly had defected. The Nashik municipal corporation collapsed,” he told Sabrang India.
 
“In the 2009 assembly election Thackeray’s MNS got 4.8% votes, won 13 seats which went down in 2014 due to Modi wave. This year, in the Assembly elections, if MNS is able to get its 2009 vote share back, it will be an important addition to the Congress-NCP kitty and can change the number game in the state. It can reduce the 8% gap in both alliances,” Wagle wrote.
 
Livemint reported that in 2009, the then-fledgeling party had bagged nearly 5% of the vote share contesting only 11 Lok Sabha seats but was the only party to drop its absolute votes in 2014 when all other parties had increased theirs. In the 2009 Assembly election, the MNS won 13 seats with a 12% state-wide vote share – including six seats in Mumbai with a staggering 24% vote share in the city – but dropped to one seat and barely three per cent vote share five years later. That lone MLA too deserted the party as it many of its second-rung leaders. Thackeray and his MNS were all but written off till his Gudi Padwa rally, the report added.
 
The opposition space in the state has eroded and Thackeray provided some much-needed succour.
 
“In his utterances, demeanour, and willingness to take on the powerful, Thackeray is now the main opposition voice in Maharashtra. He is doing the work, the campaigning, the activism, and the confrontation that the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) should have; his earlier parochialism, muscle-flexing methods, violence as a political tool are forgotten in the moment. The Congress and the NCP have, in a rare import from business to politics, out-sourced their work to Thackeray,” Livemint reported.
 
“That Thackeray, a political write-off in 2014, is now Maharashtra’s chief campaigner for opposition parties shows the paucity of imagination in Congress-NCP and erosion of the opposition space. In the 15 years of Congress-NCP governments till 2014, the BJP and the Shiv Sena vied with each other to be the principal opposition party. Between BJP’s Eknath Khadse and Fadnavis, and Sena leaders including Bal Thackeray and his son Uddhav, they made sure that successive Congress chief ministers were kept on their toes with exposes of scams and critique of policies,” the report said.
 
Maharashtra Assembly elections are only six months away and this was the best opportunity for him to revive his image and party which had all but vanished. As the Livemint report stated, if Shiv Sena sinks, he is ready to move into that space and if Cong-NCP offer him a piece of the pie, he will accept it. He has proved to be useful and showed that he still has skin in the game. 
 
“He got more publicity than Uddhav Thackeray. His party got a second shot and his leadership came alive. On the other hand, he confused Shiv Sainiks who now don’t know where to go. Neither Congress, NCP, Shiv Sena or BJP were ready to accept him as a partner. He was a pariah and untouchable. The way he has pulled crowds, what can be said is that he will try for the Cong-NCP alliance, invisibly if need be. Congress will let MNS take the stronger seats where MNS has a stake like Thane, Nashik, Dadar, Mahim etc. Congress may field weak candidates from here,” Raut told Sabrang India.
 
It will be difficult to say if the crowds will convert to votes. “Even Balasaheb Thackeray was unsuccessful in turning crowds into votes. He couldn’t win a seat in elections. This time, if the Congress-NCP alliance sees any increase in votes or seats, the credit undoubtedly will go to Raj,” he said.
 

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फिल्म अभिनेता फरहान अख्तर ने फिल्म ‘ऐ दिल है मुश्किल’ को विवाद से बचाने 5 करोड़ रुपए देने की मांग को कदम दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण करार दिया है। ऐसा कर फरहान ने MNS को आईना दिखाने का भी काम किया है।

फरहान अख्तर ने कहा है, कि फिल्म रईस को रिलीज कराने के लिए सेना के राहत कोष में पांच करोड़ रुपये देने का सवाल ही पैदा नहीं होता। इस फिल्म में फरहान अख्तर काम कर रहे हैं। फिल्म में पाकिस्तानी कलाकार के काम करने की वजह से विवाद शुरू हुआ है।

उन्होंने यह सवाल भी किया कि आप इंडिया और पाकिस्तान के बीच हर साल होनेवाले करीब 2 अरब डॉलर के बिजनेस को क्यों नहीं रोकते?

फरहान से जब फिल्म ऐ दिल है मुश्किल की तरह सेना के राहत कोष में पैसे देने के बारे में पूछा गया तो उन्होंने कहा कि सेना ने इस तरह से दी जाने वाली राशि को लेने से मना कर दिया है, इसलिए वो ऐसा करने के पक्ष में नहीं हैं।

आपको बता दें कि फरहान से पहले शबाना आजमी इस मामले पर कहा था, ‘कैसी दुखद स्थिति है। मुख्यंमत्री सौदा करते हैं, देशभक्ति खरीदने के लिए मुख्यमंत्री पांच करोड़ रुपये का सौदा करते हैं।’

Courtesy: Janta Ka Reporter

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According to an Indian Express report, Akhtar has criticised MNS and questioned the government’s role as the mediator, and said, “The only word, I think, that comes to mind is unfortunate, because it has set a terrible precedent.”
 
Following MNS’ threat of vandalising theatres screening Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, which has a Pakistani actor Fawad Khan in it, CM Fadnavis had called for a meeting of the party president Raj Thackeray and the producers, in which it was agreed that the filmmakers will not cast Pakistani artistes in future and will pay Rs 5 crore as ‘prayashchit’ (penance) to the Army welfare fund.
 
Referring to the series of incidents since MNS’ threats, Akhtar told Express, “It’s not even the government telling you what you should be doing and not doing. So who are you listening to? You are listening to the people who are threatening you with violence. Now, when you have the threat of violence, it’s not only about you. You have kids at home, you have a family.”
 
Speaking to The Indian Express during the promotion of his next film, Akhtar questioned the selective targeting of the film industry. “By all means pass a law. If you pass a law, you are representing the voice of the people. We’ve elected you to do it, so by all means pass a law. But don’t hold that standard only for the film industry. Why only the film industry? Because we are easy targets. Why don’t you stop business between India and Pakistan, this two billion dollars of business that happens every single year. Stop it, go the whole hog. This is like window dressing,” he said.
 
Supporting Johar’s statement in which he had explained how the circumstances were different when he had signed Khan, Akhtar said, ““People were encouraging exchange, our Prime Minister travelled there. It was an air, an environment of optimism, an environment of wanting bridges to be made. That’s the environment you started functioning in. Now, if that’s changed, you cannot hold this person by his throat and say that what you have done is wrong, and force you to say things and force you to pay money.”

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