Mumbai Shiv Sena today demanded Bharat Ratna for its founder Bal Thackeray, a day when the country's highest civilian honour was bestowed on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and late freedom fighter and educationist Madan Mohan Malviya. The party, a BJP ally, said while it was heartening to see that Vajpayee has been picked for the honour by the NDA Government, Thackeray, too, deserves the award. "Balasaheb was a man of great stature. Though it is v...Read More

Mumbai, 5 October 2014 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he will not a utter a word against estranged BJP ally Shiv Sena during the campaign for the October 15 Maharashtra polls as a mark of respect to Bal Thackeray. "Some political pundits in newspapers have reported that the Prime Minister is not criticizing the Shiv Sena," Modi said. "This is the first election in the absence of Balasaheb Thackeray in Maharashtra. I have decided I will not say an...Read More

Ahmedabad, 22 November 2012 Shiv Sena chief late Bala Saheb Thackeray's asthi kalash ( urn containing ashes) was kept for darshan at a plot in Jodhpur area in Amdavad on Thursday where thousands of people, especially Marathi speaking, paid homage to the leader. Gujarat wing of Shiv Sena leaders brought the urn containing the ashes to Amdavad. People in hundreds paid homage as Shiv Sainiks guarded the remains. Read More

Ahmedabad, 17 November 2012 Bal Thackeray's death is personal loss to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Balasaheb was top supporter of Modi within NDA. Modi met Balasaheb twice in last decade. He called on Balasaheb first in March 2003 and later in December 2006. In 2009, Thackeray wrote in Shiv Sena's mouthpiece "Saamana" that he prevailed on BJP leader L K Advani not to remove Narendra Modi from the chief ministerial chair in Gujarat after the Godhra riots. ...Read More

Ahmedabad, 5 October 2012 Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray in Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' today said: Modi has shown his grip on Gujarat and is going to win the polls for the third time in a row. It won't be easy for anyone to stop the victory march of Modi because of the pace of development in Gujarat in last 10 years under Modi's leadership.A picture is painted on TV channels that Modi is some sort of demon and that he is going to gobble up all Muslims in the country," Thacker...Read More

Mumbai, 23 January 2012 Greeting Bal Thackeray on his birthday today, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has described the Shiv Sena chief as a 'straightforward' leader adding that "he always fought for Hindutva," Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' quoted Modi as saying. "A personality like his comes once in a century," Modi said, on the occasion of Thackeray turning 86 today. "He gave all in the national interest and ruled people's hearts," the CM said. Read More

Ahmedabad, 20 September, 2011 Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray said the Gujarat Chief Minister shot to power by the Hindu vote bank and he should not give them "poison of secularism" in his battle for "gaddi" in Delhi. The Shiv Sena patriarch, BJP's oldest ally, also asked Modi not to forget that after Maharashtra, Gujarat was the laboratory of Hinduism and said whatever he was today, it was because of Hindu vote bank. "Hindu ramsevaks were killed in Godhra riots (train burning...Read More