Maha Vikas Aghadi "Using" Covid Situation For Their Benefit: Raj Thackeray

Taking a dig, MNS chief Raj Thackeray said the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra government is giving the impression that "everybody loves a good lockdown".

Launching a frontal attack on the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra government for not easing restrictions to allow people to celebrate Dahi Handi and other upcoming festivals, MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Tuesday alleged the three ruling parties are "using" the COVID-19 situation to their benefit. Taking a dig, he said the state government is giving the impression that "everybody loves a good lockdown". Speaking to reporters, the MNS chief also accused the government of "selectively" relaxing the COVID-19 rules for some people and referred to "Jan Ashirwad Yatras" of BJP and performing a ritual in a temple by the son of a Shiv Sena MLA. "The actions of the Maharashtra government can be summed up in the words of veteran journalist P Sainath who wrote a book "Everybody Loves a Good Drought". The current actions of the state government are like ''everybody loves a good lockdown''," the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president said after several workers of the MNS defied the ban to celebrate the Dahi Handi festival in Mumbai suburbs and the metropolitan region earlier in the day.