Cong slams Sena for refusing to apologise over cartoon

Congress today said people of the state will teach Shiv Sena a lesson for refusing to apologise over the cartoon that "lampooned" the Maratha community.
"This stand has exposed Shiv Sena's double standards of making people apologise forcibly," Congress spokesman Sachin Sawant told reporters.
"People of the state will teach Shiv Sena a lesson for refusing to apologise for the cartoon lampooning the Maratha community," he said.
Sawant hit out at Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray for saying that the Opposition parties politicised the cartoon.
"In November 2013, the Yuva Sena cadre had made a college professor give a written apology for asking 'Who Aaditya Thackeray?'. In 2010, Aaditya had forced Mumbai University to withdraw a book from its curriculum just because it contained criticism of Shiv Sena," he charged.

Recently, Shiv Sena was very critical of actor Salman Khan's anti-women remark, Sawant said adding why the party had no feelings about insult to women in the cartoon.
An office of Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' at Sanpada in Navi Mumbai was recently stoned over the cartoon it had carried alluding to the ongoing Maratha rallies. The cartoonist Shrinivas Prabhudesai had yesterday expressed regret over his work.
However, Executive Editor of the Sena mouthpiece, Sanjay Raut had said there was no reason for tendering an apology.