Raj Thackeray to go ahead with 'son of soil' stand in BMC polls

January 11, 2017 19:31

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Wednesday said that he has not given up his party's agenda of reservation in jobs for locals.

Raj, who floated MNS a decade back after breaking away from Shiv Sena, made it clear in a media briefing that he would stick to "Marathai manoos" (son of the soil) plank in the coming round of city polls.

He said his party intends to contest all 10 municipal corporation elections in the state.

Raj accused the BJP of indulging in "double talk".

"The party shares power with Shiv Sena in BMC and still criticises that there is a lot of corruption in the Corporation.

If there is corruption, the BJP is also party to it," he said. H

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