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This story is from October 19, 2013

I’m not sorry for what I said: Manohar Joshi to Uddhav Thackeray

In a letter to Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, Manohar Joshi has said there was no reason for him to repent his statement that the current party leadership lacked the late Balasaheb’s aggression.
I’m not sorry for what I said: Manohar Joshi to Uddhav Thackeray
MUMBAI: In a letter to Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, Manohar Joshi has said there was no reason for him to repent his statement that the current party leadership lacked the late Balasaheb’s aggression.
“What I have stated is the truth. If speaking truth is an offence, then I have committed it. However, I will not tender (an) apology for my statement,” Joshi said in his letter. The former chief minister sent off the missive to Uddhav Thackeray on Friday.
Joshi returned to Mumbai from his hometown Nandvi in Raigad district late Thursday evening, it is learnt. Joshi made it clear that he has no plans to quit the Sena. “I am a true Shiv Sainik, and I will continue to serve the party,” Joshi said.
He stirred a hornets’ nest last week when, speaking in an open house interview in Dadar, he said the current Sena leadership could not construct the late Balasaheb’s memorial at Shivaji Park because of its indecisiveness.
The present party lacks Balasaheb’s aggression, he said. Two days later, Joshi was booed at the Sena’s Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park. The Sena veteran had to leave the venue in a huff. Referring to the Dussehra incident, Joshi said in his letter that there was a conspiracy against him by a section in the party. “I am not upset with the grass root party workers. I am angry with those who conspired to humiliate me at Shivaji Park,” he added.
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