Standing by his party’s demand that memorial of the late Bal Thackeray be constructed at Shivaji Park here, Uddhav Thackeray, the son of late Shiv Sena supremo, said that the controversy over the issue is not required.
The Maharashtra Congress is against the idea of constructing any ‘other memorial at the sprawling ground in central Mumbai’. “Shivaji Maharaj is a god for people of Maharashtra. His memorial is already there at Shivaji Park,” MPCC chief Manikrao Thakre had said.
In his first interview after Bal Thackeray’s death, Shiv Sena working president Uddhav Thackeray vowed to continue fighting for ‘Marathi Manoos’ and ‘Hindutvavaad’.
Speaking to Sena’s paper ‘Saamna’ on other party issues, Uddhav said Bal Thackeray was irreplaceable and would always be Shiv Sena’s supremo.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan had said last week that the government would not do anything in violation of the law with regard to Sena’s demand to set up the memorial at Shivaji Park.
–PTI