Raj targets North Indians, Big B

Despite the police’s admonitions and legal threats against him, Raj Thackeray, chief of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), on Saturday issued a diktat to his supporters to take action whenever they encountered "injustice". At a massive rally at Shivaji Park, he said, "That north Indians are living in Mumbai is because of our mercy. Let it be known." ( Watch )
He said north Indians wanted to take over the state and their ‘chhat pujas’ were meant to be a show of strength. "I declare here today that no other day except Maharashtra Day will be celebrated in Maharashtra," he told the cheering crowds.
"Arrest me for this if you can," he dared the police. He told MNS leaders to shed their complacence and advised his supporters to "take action" whenever they felt necessary. "Don’t wait for instructions," he said.
Thackeray also stepped up his tirade against the Hindi media, Medha Patkar—who has moved the Human Rights Commission against his remarks—Amitabh Bachchan and Abu Asim Azmi. "If Azmi distributes sticks to north Indians, I will distribute swords to Maharashtrians," he said, adding that he had decided to take on the "dadagiri" of north Indians.
He warned that north Indians who did not speak Marathi and did not respect Marathi culture would be driven away. He added that those who were lecturing him about the constitution should remember that its architect was a Maharashtrian. Raj then donned the scholar’s cap to read out excerpts from Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s writings about the selection of Hindi as the national language. His said Dr Ambedkar had warned that the "predominance" of Hindi was dangerous for the integration of India.
Thackeray stated that so far, all Presidents of India who hailed from the south, had chosen not to deliver their public addresses in Hindi. "They stuck to English, or their own native languages. That’s why they survived," he said. Leaders of north Indian states like Mayawati and Amar Singh, when visiting Mumbai, would use slogans such as ‘Uttar Pradesh to jhanki hai, Maharashtra abhi baaki hai" (UP is only a demonstration, Maharashtra is yet to be won). He said this was proof that they wanted political control of Maharashtra.
"I have foiled that conspiracy. That is why they are incensed." Raj said he was afraid that the north Indians wanted to take control of the BMC in which there were 24 corporators from the north out of a total of 227. "How dare they pass resolutions in Hindi?" he thundered. He who says ‘Shivaji Maharaj ki jai’ is a Maharashtrian, Raj noted. He also reeled off figures of central government departments in which Maharashtrians