Intensifying its demand for Bal Thackeray's memorial at Shivaji Park in Mumbai, Shiv Sena on Sunday said the party would not budge from its stand irrespective of legal implications.
‘We don't care if any law is coming in the way to raise Balasaheb's memorial at Shivaji Park,’ said senior party leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Manohar Joshi.
He was speaking to reporters here after attending a condolence meeting at Kalidas auditorium here.
Joshi was the first leader to raise the demand for late Thackeray's memorial at Shivaji Park ground where the Shiv Sena supremo used to address party rallies.
Joshi was referring to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's statement that the state government would not do anything in violation of the law with regard to Shiv Sena's demand to set up the memorial.
Meanwhile, the Bhadravati municipal corporation in distant Chandrapur district in East Maharashtra is mulling construction of ‘temple’ dedicated to the Shiv Sena patriarch.
“A temple of late Balasaheb Thackeray shall be built in the temple town of Bhadrawati in the district with the cooperation of municipal corporation,” district unit Shiv Sena president Balu Dhanorkar announced in a press conference. He claimed that the proposal was approved by the party executive president Uddhav Thackeray.
‘We don't care if any law is coming in the way to raise Balasaheb's memorial at Shivaji Park,’ said senior party leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Manohar Joshi.
He was speaking to reporters here after attending a condolence meeting at Kalidas auditorium here.
Joshi was the first leader to raise the demand for late Thackeray's memorial at Shivaji Park ground where the Shiv Sena supremo used to address party rallies.
Joshi was referring to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's statement that the state government would not do anything in violation of the law with regard to Shiv Sena's demand to set up the memorial.
Meanwhile, the Bhadravati municipal corporation in distant Chandrapur district in East Maharashtra is mulling construction of ‘temple’ dedicated to the Shiv Sena patriarch.
“A temple of late Balasaheb Thackeray shall be built in the temple town of Bhadrawati in the district with the cooperation of municipal corporation,” district unit Shiv Sena president Balu Dhanorkar announced in a press conference. He claimed that the proposal was approved by the party executive president Uddhav Thackeray.