Memorial services

They might have criticised Bal Thackeray roundly for his communal and regional politics when he was alive but the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress have displayed as much solidarity as Sena workers themselves over his death. In Mumbai, boards were put up by NCP leaders remembering Thackeray, and the party also published a newspaper advertisement in his memory. Not to be outdone, one Congress councilor demanded Dadar station be renamed after Thackeray at a special general body meeting called by the BMC as a memorial service. Incidentally, Thackeray had opposed renaming Dadar station when there was a demand to name it after Babasaheb Ambedkar. Shiv Sena’s stand on the issue now will be worth watching.