Thackeray attacks ‘appeasement policy’

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has raised the pitch against terrorism following Tuesday’s bomb blasts in Mumbai.

Reiterating that the state and central governments are soft on certain communities, Mr Thackeray on Thursday said the Maharashtra government cannot combat “Islamic terrorists” as it is appeasing minorities.

“This government is not capable of protecting Maharashtra because those whose politics is based on appeasing minorities, cannot defeat terrorists,” the Sena chief, who is the editor of party mouthpiece Saamna, said in an editorial in the Thursday issue. “The roots of the blasts may be in Pakistan and Bangladesh, but the hands which feed these terrorists are in Mumbai,” he said.