Uddhav Thackeray asked whether those in power in Delhi had become "Dhritarashtra" of the Mahabharata as they failed to act when women were being humiliated
Uddhav Thackeray. File Pic
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday lashed out at the Centre as well as the Manipur government over the May 3 incident in the northeastern state where two women were paraded naked and sexually assaulted, reported news agency PTI.
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Addressing a gathering of north Indians in Thane city, he asked whether those in power in Delhi had become "Dhritarashtra" of the Mahabharata as they failed to act when women were being humiliated, reported PTI.
He also slammed Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh for reportedly stating that several such incidents had taken place since the violence began. "You should be ashamed," Thackeray said.
The former Maharashtra chief minister said that President Droupadi Murmu was a woman and a tribal. "I want to ask the president, what have you been doing? Don't you have any sensitivity?" he said.
"The Governor (of Manipur, Anusuiya Uikey) is also a woman and what is she doing?" Thackeray further asked.
Meanwhile, at least 10 police personnel received injuries in stone-pelting after a protest march against the sexual assault on two women in Manipur turned violent at Satana town in Maharashtra's Nashik district, officials told PTI.
Several persons have been detained in connection with the incident which took place on Saturday evening and the situation has been brought under control, Superintendent of Police (SP) Shahaji Umap told PTI.
The march was organised by the Eklavya Adivasi Sanghatana, a few other tribal organisations and the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi to condemn the incident in Manipur where two women were paraded naked and sexually assaulted by a mob on May 3.
Thousands of young men, some of them with their torsos bare as a mark of protest, took part in the march, a local police official told PTI.
When the march, which started from the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar statue, reached near the tehsil office, some participants started a sit-in agitation in front of the Satana police station, demanding that local BJP MLA Dilip Borse accept their memorandum, he said.
The police officials told them the MLA could not accept their memorandum as he was attending the assembly session in Mumbai, he said.
There were heated arguments and some of the protesters pelted stones at the police and passing vehicles which forced the police to use "mild lathicharge", the official told PTI.
There was tension in the town and shops and other commercial establishments downed their shutters following the incident.
"Ten police personnel were injured in the incident and we have taken 21 people, who indulged in stone-pelting, into custody. The incident took place after the protest march. Additional force was called in immediately. The situation is now peaceful," SP Umap told reporters on Saturday.
(With inputs from PTI)
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