Thakur criticised Thackeray's remarks, accusing him of forgetting the people of the state and highlighting the contributions of India in providing vaccines to other countries.
In his weekly column in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana, Sanjay Raut also said the casualties of soldiers in Pulwama, killings of sadhus in Palghar and heatstroke deaths in Navi Mumbai were culpable homicides and hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home minister Amit Shah.
The police in Maharashtra s Palghar district averted potential mob violence against two sadhus in a village after the residents mistook them as child-lifters, nearly three years after three persons were lynched in the district over similar suspicion, an official said on Tuesday.
As the MVA folds up, the biggest loss in this saga is for the Congress. Three Congress MLAs cross-voted in the Legislative Council elections and the party does not have a clue about who they are.