Raipur: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday demanded strict action against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray.

“What he (Raj) is doing is not politics but ‘goonda raj’,” Mr. Paswan told reporters at the Bhilai steel plant of Durg district, about 35 km from the State capital.

The matter was also raised in the Union Cabinet and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil had promised that the Maharashtra Government would be asked to take action, he said.

However, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh was not taking strict action on that matter, Mr. Paswan said, adding what had been happened with the North Indians was not politics but ‘goonda raj’.

Delegations of his party, led by him, had also raised the matter with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, he said adding the Prime Minister had expressed concern over the development. The Maharashtra government should take MNS activities seriously as that was sending a wrong signal among the North Indians. PTI

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