MNS goes full throttle before pro-CAA rally

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS) is making an all-out effort to make Sunday’s rally against “illegal Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrants” a grand success. Banners, videos, T-shirts are being used to create a conducive atmosphere for the event.

The march would begin at Girgaum Chowpatty and continue along Hindu Gymkhana and end at Azad Maidan in South Mumbai.

The party has already started a huge campaign on social media to promote the rally. At several places in the city, the workers have carried out signature campaigns to register the names of citizens for Sunday’s event. At several places, banners have been raised appealing people to participate in the rally.

As the MNS chief Raj Thackeray has asked his cadres not to call him ‘Hindu Hriday Samrat,’ the party workers have prepared T-shirts bearing the name ‘Hindu Jan Nayak.’ The late Balasaheb Thackeray, the founder of the Shiv Sena, was called ‘Hindu Hriday Samrat’ by his followers. Some activists have also been circulating the videos of the party chief for the rally.

“India is my country! All Indians are my brothers and sisters. But....the Pakistani and Bangladeshi infiltrators are not my brothers and sisters. They are not Indians...,” one of the teasers/promos stated.

MNS has stated that India is not a “dharmashala” and Bangladeshi and Pakistani infiltrators need to be driven out.

The MNS has also put up a poster outside the private residence of Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, seeking a “clean up” of the colonies that have cropped up in the Sena chief’s “own backyard of Bandra.” The chief minister’s private residence ‘Matoshree’ is located in Kalanagar, a locality of Bandra.

Backing the Narendra Modi-led government on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the poster reads, “Bangladeshi and Pakistani infiltrators need to be expelled from India. If this is your stand, then you need to clean up these colonies of infiltrators which has cropped up in your own courtyard in Bandra first.”

Not just Mumbai, in Pimpri-Chinchwad city, too, banners have been put up calling for eviction of Pakistani and Bangladeshi infiltrators.