Defending his stand on the agitation against North Indian migrants, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray said the stir was not ‘unconstitutional’.Responding to the comments of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's aide in then PMO Sudheendra Kulkarni, published in a Marathi newspaper, Thackeray said leave aside the rest of the country, in Maharashtra itself, every political party has indulged in political violence and political killings at some time or the other."Despite the entire media, especially Hindi and English media unitedly assaulting me, my party and Maharashtra, not a single worker of mine has hurt anyone in media either verbally or physically," Raj said.Leaders from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and North Indian journalists have decided to tag what we are doing under the label of ‘goondagiri’, Raj said.They (leaders and media) are doing this as their financial, cultural and political interests are intertwined, the 39-year-old estranged nephew of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray said.Leaders involved in political killings come to Maharashtra and teach me non-violence and journalists cosy up to them and dub me and my workers as goondas, Raj said. "As a former Communist, you must be aware of the millions of killings that took place in Communist agitations," Raj told Kulkarni in his letter published in the same newspaper.
