Biharis an unwanted lot: Bal Thackeray

PUNE: In an apparent bid to recapture his party's Marathi sons plank being hijacked by MNS leader Raj Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday targeted Biharis saying they were "an unwanted lot" in all parts of the country.
"They are not wanted in southern India, Assam and also Punjab and Chandigarh. The Biharis have antagonised local population wherever they had settled.The UP-Bihari MPs have shown their ingratitude towards Mumbai and Maharashtra with an anti-Marathi tirade in Parliament," Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamna.
The "Bihari" leaders accusing people of Mumbai of harbouring anti-national sentiments are trying to stir the fire of anti-north Indian feelings in Maharashtra and should realise that the exercise would only put their brethren here at the receiving end, Thackeray said.
MPs from Bihar and UP had raised the issue of anti-north Indian stand of MNS, that led to widespread violence in Maharashtra.
The arrest of Raj Thackeray following his anti-north Indian sentiments last month had put the Shiv Sena in a difficult spot as the breakaway faction led by the nephew of the Sena chief appeared to be drawing political mileage in the state at the cost of the parent party.
Sena executive President Uddhav Thackeray recently asserted that it was only his party that was wedded to the cause of Marathis and nobody else.