Days After Kolhapur Violence; Raj Thackeray Cuts Birthday Cake Carrying Aurangzeb’s Image

Amid the continued uproar over the pictures of Aurangzeb being shared on-line, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray celebrated his fifty fifth birthday by slicing a cake that carried the notorious Mughal ruler’s image.

The cake with Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and a loudspeaker imprinted on it was dropped at the MNS chief by his supporters from Raigad, ANI reported.

In a dramatic ceremony, the video of which has gone viral, Raj Thackeray, recognized for his fierce pro-Hindu rhetoric, took a knife and symbolically minimize Aurangzeb’s throat (within the picture printed on the cake) amid cheers and clapping by the gathering.

This comes as Maharashtra is already reeling from an argument associated to Aurangzeb’s photographs going viral on social media.

Tension gripped Kolhapur final week after two males allegedly put 18th-century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan and Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s picture together with an offensive audio message as their social media standing.

The subsequent day, the police needed to disperse lots of of protesters after they hurled stones throughout an indication at Shivaji Chowk.

The cake carried footage of loudspeakers as nicely, a logo which has largely been related to Raj Thakceray’s marketing campaign towards Azan being performed in loudspeakers in Maharashtra.

The use of loudspeakers, particularly throughout Azan – the Muslim name for prayer, has been an enormous and contentious difficulty in Maharashtra politics with leaders like Devendra Fadnavis and even Uddhav Thackeray being vocal about it.

It has beforehand led to clashes and unrest in a number of elements of the state.