Former Maharashtra minister Kripa Shankar Singh has suggested to the Congress central leadership a simple solution on how to tackle Raj Thackeray and his Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. “Remove their security, and be it Raj Thackeray or Bal Thackeray, they will never come out of their house,” Singh told an AICC General Secretary last week, citing his experience as Minister of State for Home in Maharashtra. To buttress his theory, he recalled that every time any Thackeray sought to create trouble, former Maharashtra Home Minister Chhagan Bhujbal would change the men in their security. “The Thackerays would be so suspicious and scared that they would immediately shut up,” said Singh.
