Mumbai & Delhi need permits: Bal Thackeray

Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Monday reiterated his demand for a permit system for Mumbai. Thackeray advocated the system for Delhi too. “The country can be saved only if the permit system is introduced in Mumbai and Delhi — the cities which face influx of migrants,” said Thackeray in an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamna.

Applauding Delhi CM Sheila Deekshit for “telling the truth that Delhi cannot bear the load of more migrants,” Thackeray called her “a mard (man) in the Congress.”

“In Mumbai, there are restrictions on the height of Ganesh idols, but there are no restrictions on the people who set up slums on the footpaths. All government lands have been encroached, yet migrants are being invited under the name of national integrity. Maharashtra’s chief minister does not have the guts like his Delhi counterpart,” said Thackeray.