‘Uddhav Thackeray felt time not right for memorial demand’

MUMBAI: After the crucial talks between chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and Shiv Sena leaders Subhash Desai and Sunil Prabhu failed, Sena president Uddhav Thackeray stepped in on Friday and asked his senior colleagues to abandon the controversial plan to have a memorial to party chief Bal Thackeray at Shivaji Park. He asked them to communicate the same to Chavan and BMC commissioner Sitaram Kunte.

If a senior Sena leader is to be believed, ever since the row began over having a memorial to the senior Thackeray at Shivaji Park, Uddhav has expressed a strong displeasure, saying the entire debate was uncalled for and it was not appropriate to raise such a demand at this time. "After the death of the senior Thackeray, the family is in mourning. In such circumstances, it would be appropriate for Sena activists to keep themselves away from such a proposal ," Uddhav had reportedly observed a week after his father's death.

Former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi was among the first senior Shiv Sena leaders to raise the demand for a Thackeray memorial at Shivaji Park . Joshi was followed by Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut, who was more vocal about the demand. Raut had made it clear that his party would not make any compromise andthe memorial would be constructed at Shivaji Park itself.

While Sena leaders made it a prestige issue, both Chavan and Kunte submitted that under no circumstances would the state or the BMC allow construction of the memorial at Shivaji Park. However, when the Sena leaders failed to remove the temporary structure, Kunte served an ultimatum on mayor Prabhu and Raut.

Meanwhile, Desai, Prabhu and Uddhav's emissary Milind Narvekar called on the CM in Nagpur on December 11.

"When Chavan explained the legal position and his commitment , it was clear to the Sena leaders that either they would have to remove the structure or take on the CM," a senior bureaucrat said. They then knocked on the doors of home minister R R Patil, but to no avail. The trio returned to Mumbai and met Uddhav. "The Sena president decided that the party would not press for a memorial at Shivaji Park . It was also decided that a communication would be sent to the CM and Kunte," a Sena leader said.

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