Thackeray takes a dig on groups celebrating affidavit withdrawl

MUMBAI: Taking a dig at Hindutva groups that are 'celebrating' the government's withdrawal of the affidavit on Ram Setu, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has said they should learn to rejoice about big victories rather than smaller ones.
    
"After the withdrawal of the affidavit, Hindu organisations went to town declaring this as a victory for Hindus, but they fail to realise that in celebrating such small victories, they have forgotten to celebrate the big ones," Thackeray said in a editorial in the party mouthpiece Saamna.
    
Recollecting the murder of general Afzal Khan at the hands of the Maratha king Shivaji, he said, "If such moments do not come again then it is not long before India becomes another Pakistan."
    
In the editorial titled "Mothya vijayache swapna Hinduna kadhi padel?" (When will Hindus learn to dream of bigger victories), Thackeray also took potshots at Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi over the Ram Setu controversy.