BCCI Rebutts Thackeray's Comments About Tendulkar's Remarks

BCCI’s Rajiv Shukla did not waste time in slamming Bal Thackeray, the Shiv Sena supremo, who questioned Sachin Tendulkar on his comments about Mumbai.
Dubbing Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) as behaving like Mohammad Ali Jinnah (the man behind India’s partition with Pakistan), the BCCI have denounced Bal Thackeray’s remarks on Sachin Tendulkar.
Shukla stated, “These kind of comments are completely uncalled for. Shiv Sena people have no business to talk like this. Tendulkar is a nationalist. He is for Maharashtra, he is for India. If somebody calls himself an Indian, is it a crime? Maharashtrians don’t like such utterances. Only a handful of people will support this. Majority of them won’t like this. They want to be called Indians first.” He also added that the Shiv Sena and MNS were not the true representatives of Maharashtra because the state had voted the NCP- Congress alliance into power.

Perhaps Thackeray will issue another faux pas and wash his hands off this write up in the Saamna as well seeing the wrath of people, especially fellow sportsmen, who believe Sachin did no wrong by calling himself an Indian first and believing in the Constitutional right of freedom of movement.

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