After Raj, Bal Thackeray now backs cartoonist Aseem Trivedi

September 12, 2012 14:27

A day after nephew and MNS chief Raj Thackeray backed cartoonist Aseem Trivedi who was arrested on charges of sedition (and since released), Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray today came out in his support and opposed the sedition law.

"(Through his cartoons) Trivedi tried to depict the rot in Parliament and the government charged him with sedition," Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamana.

"Trivedi did insult the symbols but that does not justify branding him a traitor and imprisoning him," he said. Afzal Guru is enjoying in Tihar jail, Thackeray quipped.

"How can you apply the same yardstick for him and Trivedi?" he asked. "The sedition law is one brought by Britishers. Britain has dismissed it from their Constitution but it is still there in our Constitution," Thackeray said.

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