Lakhimpur violence: Maharashtra bandh begins; BJP, MNS question MVA govt.’s double-standards
The Hindu
Buses damaged in Mumbai; shops, APMCs remain shut across State
While thecalled by the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) of the Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress on Monday generally received support from all sections of society, Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) questioned the MVA’s “double-standards” in imposing the shutdown on farmers, traders and businessmen limping back to normalcy after successive pandemic-induced lockdowns.
Censuring the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government for “forcibly imposing” the shutdown, MNS general secretary Sandeep Deshpande questioned as to why the Sena MPs had not protested vigorously at the time when the ‘anti-farmer laws’ were being passed in Parliament.