Raj Thackeray Quotes

The last issue I remember where a president was involved was in the capital punishment of 1993 blasts convict Yaqub Memon. Otherwise, in your life, in my life, how does a president make a difference? Has a president ever stated his point of view on anything?

I think I am the first person to have made a statement that Narendra Modi should be the Prime Minister of India.

One has to shed one’s old skin for a positive change.

There is no Modi wave. He has to attend so many rallies because there is no wave and also, BJP doesn’t have a face to project.

Maharashtrians in America have a Maharashtra mandal every year. You know when they celebrate it? On July 4, the American Independence Day. That’s respect for local culture.

Nirav Modi was the talk of the town, then the issue of Sridevi came in. This was brought to change the issue. When a person like Sridevi dies, you wrap her in tri-colour and you say you did that because she was a Padma Shri. It was all fault of the Maharashtra government.

If I see something I do not like, I will say it.

Keep your religion in your house. Shut off the loudspeakers Masjids. Our Aarti does not trouble, why should Namaaz harass others?

Many people compare the agitation of MNS with Shiv Sena because of the mode of agitation. But the main difference is that while Shiv Sena launched an agitation for the poor Marathi unemployed youth, the agitation of MNS is directed against the ‘goondaism’ of North Indians.

Shiv Sena is interested only in Marathi votes and not the Marathi manoos.

There should be restriction on migration. Some people may criticize me for that. But the future generations will see the merit in my argument.

I am an admirer of Modi’s work from the beginning.

The issue of infiltrators is as important as that of drinking water, education and health.

If anything like #MeToo happens, women can come to MNS. We will teach a lesson to accused. Women must raise the voice when they face oppression, not after 10 years.

Muslim clerics in India go to other countries, nobody knows what do they do, even the police can’t go there.

As for the development of Mumbai, the problem is that most of our chief ministers are from interior Maharashtra and they are not familiar with the problems confronting the city. Only someone born here will understand the problems of the metropolis.

Winston Churchill never said that people had let him down when he lost the elections after the World War II.

Modi created the impression that he was ready to go to war with Pakistan after the Pulwama attack. But his government was so broke it was begging the RBI for Rs 300,000 crore.

England pulled out from the European Union (EU) out of anger, as locals there were not getting jobs. They also have no work like Maharashtrian youth, as ‘outsiders‘ had grabbed all the opportunities.

Whatever I do I will do on my own strength.

I have made it clear that I am supporting Modi for his work. This does not mean that I am supporting BJP.

I kept asking what my role was in the Sena. I was told that I was responsible for Nashik, but I really did not have any rights there.

I do not think anything should be given for free. Everything has a price attached to it.

When there was a Congress government in Maharashtra, no one bothered about law and order.

People talk of the power and capabilities of Sharad Pawar. But except for his home turf Baramati, he has done very little for the development of the state. His vision is limited to Baramati.

But Akshay Kumar is not even an Indian citizen. He holds a Canadian passport and Wikipedia describes him as an Indian-born Canadian actor.

Presidents are only seen on August 15 and January 26. Who knows what they do for five years other than this?

I do not have body doubles like Saddam Hussein had.

Cartooning, quietly and discreetly, drew me into the circle of politics and I continue to enjoy both. They both inspire me and I could never given up one for the other.

I never criticized Modi. All I said was that Modi cannot be a chief minister and still nurse prime ministerial ambitions. I only suggested that he should resign as the chief minister and then stake his claim to be prime minister.

Wherever you go, respect the local culture or you will suffer.

I am clear I will support the BJP only because of Mr. Modi.

You are paying for petrol, roads, tolls but what are you getting? Year after year, the roads go bad and then get repaired, but the number of potholes only keep rising.

The Government regularizes illegal slums inhabited by outsiders, but the government workers or policemen do not get permanent house in Mumbai.

In Gujarat, they may not have enough people to do menial jobs and so they need people from U.P. and Bihar. But in Maharashtra, we have enough people who need jobs.

Modi says he built 850,000 toilets in Bihar one week. That’s roughly 1.5 toilets per second. We can’t even go to the toilet in that much time.

When people encroach on forest land and in the periphery of habitats of wild animals, they attack humans.

When I fight elections, I don’t think about results whether it is assembly or Lok Sabha polls.

Sena never spoke against Biharis or against people from Uttar Pradesh. In fact, they are the ones who started ‘Chhat pooja’ and ‘U.P. Day’ in Maharashtra.

I am accepting all the resignations that have been sent to me by various party leaders. These resignations have shown me just who continues to stand by me and who doesn’t.