Mumbai, June 30: Taking his cue from Nicolas Sarkozy, Bal Thackeray has demanded a ban on the burqa.
In a strongly-worded editorial in Monday’s edition of party mouthpiece Saamana, the Shiv Sena patriarch praises the French president, deprecates the attitude of India’s “thakela-pakela (tired and bored)” rulers and warns against “the dangers of Islam”.
“I congratulate Sarkozy.
He is an ideal ruler. Their (French) rulers never appease the Muslims for vote-bank politics,” Thackeray writes in the editorial, asking”our rulers to ban the burqa and implement the uniform civil code.”
Bal Thackeray has also taken a potshot at a senior BJP leader from Maharashtra, without naming him. Sarkozy kisses his wife Carla Bruni in public, unlikepoliticians such as “former Haryana deputy CM Chand Mohammad and a similar one from Maharashtra”, who do it in secret, he has written.
–Agencies