Not Shiv Sena's official stance: Sanjay Raut slams party worker asking 'Karachi Sweets' owner to change shop's name
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Not Shiv Sena’s official stance: Sanjay Raut slams party worker asking ‘Karachi Sweets’ owner to change shop’s name

A day after Shiv Sena employee requested the proprietor of a ‘Karachi Sweets’ store in suburban Bandra to alter his outlet’s title to one thing else, Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut on Thursday slammed the decision for a reputation change.

Taking to micro-blogging web site Twitter, Raut asserted that it “makes no sense” including that Karachi bakery and Karachi sweets have been in Mumbai for the final six a long time. He stated that it has nothing to do with Pakistan and clarified that it isn’t Shiv Sena’s official stance.

“Karachi bakery and Karachi sweets have been in Mumbai since last 60 years. They have nothing to do with Pakistan. It makes no sense to ask for changing their names now. Demand for changing their name is not Shiv Sena’s official stance,” he tweeted.

In a video clip shared on his Facebook web page on Wednesday, Sena employee Nitin Nandgaonkar is seen asking the proprietor to rename the store after his father or grandfather, contending that Karachi is in Pakistan, which is a “country of terrorists”.

“Don’t use the name Karachi in Mumbai…Humein Karachi naam se takleef hai (we have an objection to the name Karachi). Our jawan (died) on Bhai Dooj. Pakistan is a country of terrorists,” he stated.

Nandgaonkar stated he “will give the shop owner time to rename the shop”, and in a put up together with the video added that boards bearing the textual content ‘Karachi’ be modified inside 15 days. “You have to do it, we’re giving you time. Change ‘Karachi’ to something in Marathi,” stated Nandgaokar within the video.

He wrote in his Facebook put up, “The name of Karachi will no longer work in Mumbai and Maharashtra….Karachi is the place of famous terrorists, then why do they fly in Maharashtra…? If you live in Mumbai then be proud of Mumbai….Memories of Pakistan, Karachi will not work in Mumbai.”

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in a press release hit out on the Shiv Sena over its employee “threatening” the store proprietor, and requested Mumbai police to take cognisance, saying this the very last thing the town wants throughout a pandemic. 

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