"We Are Certified Goondas": Sanjay Raut After Sena Bhavan Clash

Sanjay Raut said "Balasaheb Thackeray used to sit at the Shiv Sena Bhavan. If someone charges at the Shiv Sena Bhavan, we will answer and if that's called goondagiri, then we are goondas"

Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut had a riposte to BJP allegations of  hooliganism after yesterday's clash between the workers of two parties outside the Sena Bhavan in Mumbai's Dadar. "No one need to give us a certificate on being goondas, we are certified," the senior Sena leader told reporters today.  Then he added, "When it comes to Marathi pride and Hindutva, we are certified goondas", pointing out that the party office was a symbol of the state and its people. The Sena and BJP workers came to blows yesterday after the BJP youth wing held a protest march against "offensive'' remarks in Sena mouthpiece Saamana about a land deal controversy in Ayodhya. Accusing the Sena workers of hooliganism, the BJP also alleged that they had assaulted a woman member of the party. The Sena said they had received information that the BJP workers were coming to vandalise the party office. "We were first told that BJP workers were coming to protest, later we learnt that they are coming to vandalise the Sena Bhavan. So we stopped them before they could reach near it," Sena MLA Sada Sarvankar was quoted as saying by news agency Press Trust of India.