Click to play videoMumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's comments about withdrawing the security of Shiv Sena leaders including its Executive President Uddhav Thackeray for the party's politics of hate have now snowballed into a full blown turf war between the Congress-led government and the Shiv Sena.
"For Sena it has become a matter of prestige, they are losing ground politically. So a non-issue has been picked up by them to create terror in the city, but we will, under any circumstances I will not tolerate this," Chavan had replied when asked if the Maharashtra government would withdraw Uddhav's security.
Chavan's threat has once again galvanised the Shiv Sena, which quickly tried to turn it to its political advantage.
"Let them take my security and give it to Kasab (Mumbai attacker Ajmal Amir kasab). This is not Mussolini's rule. If the Chief Minister can give a threat, I too will give back my security. The public wants khana (food), Chavan wants Khan (Shah Rukh Khan)," said Uddhav Thackeray.
Taking a cue from their leader, all Sena MPs have now written a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Speaker requesting her to take away their security.
But all of it looks like posturing on the part of the government and the Sena.
"Today he is the Chief Minister, tomorrow he may not be. He will also be seen on the streets one day," said Sena mouthpiece Saamna's editor Sanjay Raut.
Now it's an all out political war between Chavan and Uddhav in which Shah Rukh Khan's film My Name Is Khan is a collateral damage.
By the end of the last week Sena had almost given up on its protests against My Name Is Khan, but it seems Chavan's latest diatribe against Uddhav has reignited the Shiv Sainiks who are retaliating by disrupting Shah Rukh's movie to embarrass Ashok Chavan's government.
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