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Shiv Sena (UBT) main Uddhav Thackeray connected Friday (November 28, 2025) said his enactment MPs volition chant Vande Mataram in Parliament, and dared the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to suspend them.
The erstwhile Maharashtra Chief Minister made the connection 4 days aft the Rajya Sabha Secretariat issued a memorandum reminding members to refrain from chanting slogans, including ‘Thanks’, ‘Thank You’, ‘Jai Hind’ and ‘Bande Mataram’, successful the House, citing these arsenic a breach of parliamentary etiquette.
The Opposition Congress besides attacked the BJP implicit the contented and accused the party, which leads the ruling alliances astatine the Centre and successful Maharashtra, of practising “sham nationalism”.
Addressing mediapersons successful Mumbai, Mr. Thackeray said, “Our MPs volition proceed to recite Vande Mataram successful Parliament. If the BJP has courage, it should suspend them. When we were with the BJP, we utilized to accidental ‘Is desh mein rehna hoga to Vande Mataram kehna hoga (Those who privation to enactment successful India indispensable chant Vande Mataram)’.” He went connected to deed retired astatine the BJP implicit its “drama of nationalism and fake Hindutva”.
Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant besides accused the BJP of “weaponising the National Song to beforehand its polarisation agenda” by targeting representatives from the number community.
“Those who lacked the courageousness to accidental Vande Mataram during British regularisation person present imposed a prohibition connected it. This shows BJP’s hypocrisy and sham nationalism,” the Congress person posted connected X.
‘Poor civic planning’
The erstwhile Chief Minister besides criticised the BJP-led Mahayuti authorities implicit its determination to chopped trees successful Nashik’s Tapovan country to wide abstraction for the operation of quarters to location saints for the Kumbh Mela successful 2027.
Tapovan is believed to beryllium the spot wherever Lord Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana spent a portion of their 14-year exile.
“No inconvenience should beryllium caused to the saints, but for that, the authorities needs to program and beryllium transparent. So far, wherefore has nary Guardian Minister been appointed?” said Mr. Thackeray.
The Shiv Sena (UBT) main besides took connected the State authorities implicit rising contamination successful Mumbai, attributing it to deforestation of the Aarey forests.
“We stopped the Aarey Metro car shed task during my tenure. However, the Aarey forests were chopped down, and contamination is present increasing. The improvement [supervised by the ruling Mahayuti] has zero readying and is lone meant to payment contractors,” helium added.
