Prashant Bhushan paid price for pro-pak stand: Bal Thackeray

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Friday defended the attack on Team Anna member and lawyer Prashant Bhushan for his remarks on J&K advocating a plebiscite, saying he had paid the price for advocating Pakistan's cause.

"Should Bhushan be showered with flowers for his anti-national comments supporting plebiscite in Kashmir, which Pakistan has been demanding," Thackeray asked in an editorial in Friday's edition of 'Saamana'. "Those who attacked Bhushan were not thieves or goons but had gone to question him on his comments on J&K," he said. Thackeray, who had supported Anna Hazare's fast on bringing Janlokpal bill, said, "till Hazare and his associates spoke against corruption, it was okay."