Varanasi: Hitting back at Shiv Sena for its
remarks against Rahul Gandhi, senior Congress leader Digvijay
Singh on Wednesday dubbed the Thackerays as "paper tigers".
"They (Thackerays) are paper tigers. There is no need to
pay much attention to them," he said after the Shiv Sena
supremo Bal Thackeray stepped up attack on Gandhi on the
"Mumbai for all Indians" remark and raked up the issue of
Congress president Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin.
Singh said the Thackerays wanted to hog the headlines by
taking to violence in front of media for the sake of
publicity. "We know how courageous they are," he said.
Thackeray said in an editorial in Shiv Sena mouthpiece
'Saamna', "The 'Prince of Congress' is totally frustrated and
it is in this frustration he has insulted Marathi people and
Maharashtra".
The Sena leader said Mumbai was not a "dharamshala" (guest
house) of the country that "anyone comes to Mumbai, spits here
and leaves."
Thackeray's attack came in the wake of Rahul commenting
that the NSG men who vanquished terrorists during 26/11 were
from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, February 03, 2010, 15:07