Raj Thackeray Quotes

We will put a stop to the ‘Dadagiri’ of people of U.P. and Bihar in Maharashtra.

If anything like #MeToo happens, women can come to MNS. We will teach a lesson to accused. Women must raise the voice when they face oppression, not after 10 years.

I know Nana Patekar; he is indecent.

I am clear I will support the BJP only because of Mr. Modi.

When people encroach on forest land and in the periphery of habitats of wild animals, they attack humans.

Among politicians, I would say Sonia Gandhi is not exactly a cartoonist’s delight.

In Gujarat, they may not have enough people to do menial jobs and so they need people from U.P. and Bihar. But in Maharashtra, we have enough people who need jobs.

A good man should be on the PM’s chair. The country’s condition should improve. Only because of this I have supported Modi. You may call it a masterstroke or anything else.

I appeal to Muslims and Hindus, beware of the election plans of the BJP.

Modi could have done wonders in the country because he had a majority government. He, however, only changed the names of the schemes implemented by the Congress.

Cartooning, quietly and discreetly, drew me into the circle of politics and I continue to enjoy both. They both inspire me and I could never given up one for the other.

Nirav Modi was the talk of the town, then the issue of Sridevi came in. This was brought to change the issue. When a person like Sridevi dies, you wrap her in tri-colour and you say you did that because she was a Padma Shri. It was all fault of the Maharashtra government.

I appeal to all political parties to come together for a Modi Mukt Bharat.

You are paying for petrol, roads, tolls but what are you getting? Year after year, the roads go bad and then get repaired, but the number of potholes only keep rising.

Like Maharashtra, the people of Gujarat also do not want a bullet train.

If I see something I do not like, I will say it.

We have jobs in Maharashtra but outsiders are getting them. They are also getting admission in educational institutions depriving our children of their rights.

I am an admirer of Modi’s work from the beginning.

Modi says he built 850,000 toilets in Bihar one week. That’s roughly 1.5 toilets per second. We can’t even go to the toilet in that much time.

The Government regularizes illegal slums inhabited by outsiders, but the government workers or policemen do not get permanent house in Mumbai.

If NSA Ajit Doval is investigated, then all the truth about the Pulwama terror attack will come out.

I am in politics. Here, it is not possible to know everyone around you. How can I take responsibility for all those who support me or work for me or simply hang around me?

The 2009 elections were the first my party faced. Still MNS candidates lost by lesser margins. Each of my candidate got more than one lakh votes.

I do not think anything should be given for free. Everything has a price attached to it.

The taxpayer is entitled to some essential things. Families should be able to provide their children with playgrounds and find places for them in schools. There should be enough hospitals. Water should be provided to all. Surplus electricity should be available. The taxpayer should be comfortable.

India needs to intensify its security even if it mean people are inconvenienced.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

As for the development of Mumbai, the problem is that most of our chief ministers are from interior Maharashtra and they are not familiar with the problems confronting the city. Only someone born here will understand the problems of the metropolis.

Sridevi was a great actor, but what did she do for the country that her body was wrapped in the tricolour?

If Munshi Premchand or Harivansh Rai Bachchan come from U.P., I am ready to put out a red carpet for them, but not for the goons of Azamgarh and Pratapgarh.

Presidents are only seen on August 15 and January 26. Who knows what they do for five years other than this?

In West Bengal when Sourav Ganguly is dropped from the team, the communists in that region become Bengalis and fight for him. Is this not regionalism?

The Shiv Sena says that when it comes to power, they will declare Aarey as a forest. How will they declare it a forest when there won’t be any trees left?

The Lok Sabha election is not a contest between political parties. It is a fight between Modi-Shah, and the country. Only when these two people are removed, will it be a proper contest between parties.

I have nothing against Indian Muslims but there are certain ‘mohallas’ in different parts of the State which have become the hub of illegal immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh, which need to be cleaned.

Shiv Sena is interested only in Marathi votes and not the Marathi manoos.

There is no Modi wave. He has to attend so many rallies because there is no wave and also, BJP doesn’t have a face to project.

I am deeply pained after learning about the death of Pravin Chougule.

India is not Dharamshala. People coming from Bangladesh and Pakistan should be thrown out. India had not taken the contract of humanity.

I am accepting all the resignations that have been sent to me by various party leaders. These resignations have shown me just who continues to stand by me and who doesn’t.

The message has to go to U.P. and Bihar that there is no space left in Mumbai for you. After destroying the city, the migrants will go back to their villages. But where will we go then?

I do not have body doubles like Saddam Hussein had.

I think I am the first person to have made a statement that Narendra Modi should be the Prime Minister of India.

Cartoons, if you ask me, are the most powerful weapon in today’s politics. Balasaheb Thackeray has proved this.

If Marathi population is facing injustice I will pounce on them for Marathi, and if Hindu is being targeted I will attack like a Hindu.

My mother lives with me.

I do not understand why Muslims are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act. CAA is not for the Muslims who were born here.

Keep your religion in your house. Shut off the loudspeakers Masjids. Our Aarti does not trouble, why should Namaaz harass others?

These days, those who criticize the Union government are being labelled as anti-BJP and those praise it as BJP supporters. Isn’t there any middle path?

Muslim clerics in India go to other countries, nobody knows what do they do, even the police can’t go there.

England pulled out from the European Union (EU) out of anger, as locals there were not getting jobs. They also have no work like Maharashtrian youth, as ‘outsiders’ had grabbed all the opportunities.

When I fight elections, I don’t think about results whether it is assembly or Lok Sabha polls.

There should be restriction on migration. Some people may criticize me for that. But the future generations will see the merit in my argument.

If there is not competent Opposition, the government that comes to power won’t have anyone to hold them accountable.

One has to shed one’s old skin for a positive change.

If the government and judiciary start working together then who will raise people’s issues?

The Ram Mandir should be built, but it should not be used as an election plank to divide the society and win votes.

I am not against development, but society will go nowhere if you don’t take care of trees.

There can be a debate on the Citizenship Amendment Act, but why should we shelter someone who has come to India illegally from outside?

I know my limitations; I know what I can do and what I can’t.

In Mumbai, Marathi schools are shutting down and Urdu schools are increasing. The parties governing the BMC are giving permission to these schools. If Urdu schools are rising, you know whose numbers are increasing and who is coming to the city.

Winston Churchill never said that people had let him down when he lost the elections after the World War II.

I still remember the day I quit all posts in Sena. I was equally hurt and saddened.

Several times I drew a critical cartoon and then, at the last moment, stopped myself from putting it out in print. I thought it would be misunderstood, be a politically incorrect thing to do.

After Balasaheb died, I have not spoken. What do I say?

Modi created the impression that he was ready to go to war with Pakistan after the Pulwama attack. But his government was so broke it was begging the RBI for Rs 300,000 crore.