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‘Sachin in RS is Cong’s dirtiest play’

Thackeray said they were proud of Sachin’s achievements as a Maharashtrian, but film artistes like Hema Malini and Jaya Bachchan who had entered the upper house earlier had been unable to perform

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In a tirade that will most likely intensify the current war of words over cricketing great Sachin Tendulkar’s nomination to the Rajya Sabha by the Congress-led UPA government, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray called it the “Congress’s dirtiest play.”

“The real dirty picture is this,” said Thackeray, speaking to reporters after receiving the lifetime achievement award from Raipur-based Cartoon Watch magazine at his Bandra residence on Sunday.

Thackeray said they were proud of Sachin’s achievements as a Maharashtrian, but film artistes like Hema Malini and Jaya Bachchan who had entered the upper house earlier had been unable to perform. “Do you have any scope?” he asked.
On the charges against Hazare’s aides and Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan’s polemic statements on Kashmir, Thackeray said Hazare had not condemned them but chose to “keep mum.”

Thackeray had refused to meet Hazare during the latter’s recent visit to Mumbai to garner political support for a strong Lokayukta.
“The Parliament is elected by the people. The corrupt are there in it, weed them out,” emphasised Thackeray, while adding that corruption cannot be eradicated as long as people did not stop accepting money during polls.

Ridiculing Congress scion Rahul Gandhi for his whirlwind tour of the drought-hit areas in western Maharashtra, Thackeray read out a suicide note of a farmer who called on fellow cultivators to not vote for the Congress- NCP.

The occasion was a trip down memory lane for Thackeray, a veteran political cartoonist and a maven of satire and lampoonery. A nostalgic Thackeray spoke about his cartooning career - during which his work was published in a world anthology of cartoons on Winston Churchill - the style of legendary political cartoonists like David Low, and his love for the art.

In 1945, Thackeray began his career with the Free Press Journal as a cartoonist, and later began his own cartoon weekly Marmik, along with brother Shrikant.

Lamenting on the decline in the number of political cartoonists today, Thackeray said his involvement in the affairs of the Shiv Sena from 1987 had led to him losing his concentration as an artist. His own ill health, he rued, was now preventing him from engaging in his passion.

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