Mumbai: After poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar slammed Pakistan for 26/11 terror assaults on the Faiz Festival in Lahore, Uddhav Thackeray faction chief Sanjay Raut praised Akhtar on Thursday and mentioned that President Droupadi Murmu and PM Narendra Modi ought to felicitate him. Raut mentioned, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister, Defense Minister, RSS chief, and President ought to felicitate Javed Akhtar for taking this daring step. Akhtar has proven his patriotism and everybody ought to help him.
“Our party greets Javed Akhtar with open hearts and appreciates his courage for speaking against Pakistan in Pakistan itself. Bharatiya Janata Party, Prime Minister Modi, and Home Minister Amit Shah say `Hum Ghus kr marenge` (It`s our principle to hit enemies inside their territory) that is good and we should do that but this time Javed Akhtar Sahab has hit the enemies inside their territory,” Raut mentioned.
Earlier a video of the poet-lyricist went viral on social media the place he’s purportedly heard talking about “bitterness” in the hearts of Indians over the 26/11 assaults.
Responding to somebody in the viewers, he’s purportedly heard in the video, “When you visit your homeland, do you tell your fellow citizens, `we (Pakistanis) are good people, we don`t just bomb people but also greet with garlands?`”Blaming one another received`t remedy our issues. Aham baat yeh hai ki jo garam hai fiza, woh kam honi chahiye. Hum toh Bambaiye log hain. Hamne dekha wahan kaise hamla hua tha. Wo log Norway se toh nahi aaye the naa Egypt se aaye the, wo log abhi bhi aapke mulk me ghum rahe hain. Toh ye shikayat agar Hindustani ke dil mein ho toh aapko bura nahi manna chahiye. (We noticed how Mumbai was attacked. They (terrorists) got here neither from Norway nor Egypt.
They are nonetheless roaming freely in your nation. So you shouldn`t be offended if there`s a grouse and bitterness in Indian hearts over the 26/11 assaults,” Akhtar said at the literary event held in the memory of renowned Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Akhtar said, “I wouldn`t hesitate to say that although now we have organized so many grand capabilities of Nusrat (Fateh Ali Khan) sahab and Mehdi Hassan sahab in our nation, you couldn`t set up a single occasion of Lata (Mangeshkar) ji.
“At least 174 people, including 20 security force personnel and 26 foreigners, were killed and more than 300 injured in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008. Ten Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists came to Mumbai via the sea route from Pakistan and carried out a series of coordinated attacks on India`s financial capital.Â
