Rahul Gandhi to visit Mumbai despite Sena's word of caution
New Delhi: Despite Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray's
warning, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is expected to visit Mumbai on Friday. The Congress party has confirmed Gandhi's trip to Mumbai, which includes
stops at two colleges that was scheduled before Thackeray threatened him to stay
out of Mumbai's affairs. However, the sources in the Congress government said
the party is nervous about security arrangements taking into account the Shiv
Sena activists targeting Gandhi. Thackeray on Wednesday said, "Rahul should not
interfere in Marathi affairs. Rahul should stop all this or we won't allow him
into Mumbai." Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray had also hit back at Rahul
Gandhi's
'Mumbai for all Indians' comment by saying Mumbai may belong to all Indians, but
how can it belong to an Italian mummy. In a statement in the party mouthpiece
'Saamna', Thackeray said, "Mumbai was not a guesthouse of the country that anyone
comes to Mumbai and leaves." Mumbai belongs to Maharashtra and Marathi people,
Thackeray said, and added, "If anyone is going to murder this truth, he will have
to face weapons of Maharashtra." Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday criticized both the Shiv
Sena and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) for their unwarranted attacks on
north Indians, and said that every inch of India belongs to each and every Indian.
