Mumbai, June 09: In a clear effort to take the Shiv Sena head-on in its stronghold of Mumbai, the Congress today sharply attacked the Saffron Party's "Mee Mumbaikar" campaign and its "communal agenda". "Sena's Mumbaikar campaign has clearly established that the party is not nationalist but nazist,” AICC general secretary Vayalar Ravi said at a day-long training camp of activists of Mumbai Regional Congresss Committee (MRCC) at Shanmukhananda Hall in Central Mumbai.
Sena's "Mee Mumbaikar" campaign, against the growing influx into the metropolis, came under severe attack by senior Congress leaders who spoke on the occasion.

The Sena, by not allowing India-Pakistan cricket matches in Mumbai, was going against the "citizens here", Ravi said adding, Congress would stringently oppose such "forces".

Congress Working Committee (CWC) member and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said "everybody knows that Mumbaikar campaign is clearly aimed at garnering votes".
Lashing out at the Sena, he said that the party's ideological contradictions are exposed as on one hand it gives "Mee Mumbaikar" call and on the other contemplates to spread the party to other parts of the country.

Deshmukh said, "People are not going to be deceived by such campaigns henceforth.”

Bureau Report