Raj Thackeray accepts Bachchan's apology

NEW DELHI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray has accepted Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan���s apology. (Watch)

Addressing the media, the MNS chief said, ���We are withdrawing our agitation.��� ���We accept Big B���s apology because he went public,��� he said.

���Jaya Bachchan should not speak on issues that she has no idea of,��� he added. Raj said Jaya should not speak impromptu and should stick to a script.

Amitabh had apologized at a press conference and on his blog on Wednesday in the hope that it would pacify the rowdy MNS activists who had gone on a rampage ripping posters of his latest movie The Last Lear and threatening other Bollywood sites over wife Jaya Bachchan���s alleged anti-Marathi remarks.

The MNS, which has targeted non-Marathi speakers and even attacked shops for not putting up Marathi signages, had said it wanted Jaya to personally apologize before print and TV journalists for recently saying at a film���s music launch that she would speak in Hindi as she was from UP.