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Raj Thackeray Slams BJP, Media Over Yakub Hanging

MNS chief Raj Thackeray said the Centre wanted “riots to break out in the country”, so the Yakub hanging drama.

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Hitting out at BJP over the execution of 1993 blasts case convict Yakub Memon, MNS president Raj Thackeray today alleged that the BJP-led governments at the Centre and state wanted “riots to break out in the country”.

Yakub Memon was a terrorist but his hanging episode was converted into a drama by both the Centre and the state government. Looking into the events preceding and following the hanging of this traitor who killed so many people, I feel that both governments only wanted riots to break out in the country.
— Raj Thackeray.

The 47-year-old firebrand leader was addressing a gathering of party supporters in adjoining Thane.

He alleged that the media was being fed with the details of Memon’s activities ahead of the July 30 hanging and the journalists, too, enthusiastically lapped them up.

On the day of Yakub’s hanging, newspapers printed so many pictures of this traitor, while we could barely see photos of a nationalist like A P J Abdul Kalam (who was laid to rest on July 30).
— Raj Thackeray.

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