Mumbai: Sena (UBT) demanded the arrest of former Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai for saying last week that Mumbai is not a Maharashtrian city but an international one. The remark, made while Annamalai was campaigning for the BMC polls, sparked a row. The Samyukta Maharashtra movement in the 1960s had arisen to retain Mumbai as part of Maharashtra, instead of ceding it to Gujarat. “Is this BJP’s view? How can he (Annamalai) say this about Maharashtra’s capital? If he has insulted 106 Marathi martyrs, then CM Devendra Fadnavis should lodge a case against him and arrest him,” said (Sena) UBT MP Sanjay Raut. He asked why deputy CM Eknath Shinde was silent on the issue. Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray asked BJP to make its stand clear. —Priyanka Kakodkar
