Five years since he supported UPA's Presidential nominee Pratibha Patil after breaking ranks with NDA, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today appeared having second thoughts on the issue. 

"Pratibha Patil is our President. She could not hang Afzal Guru in the last five years. Now, when you are demitting office, at least 'hang' the Karnataka Government which is anti-Maharashtra," Thackeray, who had backed Patil for the post as she was a Maharashtrian, said.

Thackeray's comments against ally BJP's Karnataka government came after it superseded the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti-controlled Belgaum city corporation for the second time in less than seven months two days ago, raising tempers across the border in Maharashtra.

"After all, you (Patil) are going to settle in Maharashtra at the end of your tenure. A historic opportunity has been presented to you to repay the debt of Maharashtra," Thackeray said in an editorial in Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana'.