I am not Dhritharashtra, responded Bal Thackeray during Raj Thackeray faceoff
After Raj left the party, the Sena boss had asserted that he was not saddened by his exit. But a day later he said those who have left the party should return.

During the course of an interview to Sena mouthpiece "Saamna" during which he spoke his mind after Raj's departure from the party, a question-- "In this entire episode you are being called Dhritharashtra"-- was posed to him.
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"Even if I wear black goggles, I am not Dhritarashtra of Mahabharat", replied Thackeray, who often wears dark glasses. Dhritharashtra is the fabled blind king and father of the Kauravas in the Mahabharat epic.
After Raj left the party, the Sena boss had asserted that he was not saddened by his exit. But a day later he said those who have left the party should return.
"Ya chimnyno parat phira re.... Gharakade apulya (little sparrows should return to their nest)," he said, quoting a popular Marathi folk song.
"Whatever Raj wanted, I and Uddhav had agreed to. But I can not tell which 'guru' advised and poisoned his mind," he added.
Thackeray also had said it was he who runs the Shiv Sena. "I told Raj that he and Uddhav should sit together and discuss."
"My writ still runs in the party," he added.
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