India, July 6 -- Aaditya Thackeray of the Shiv Sena (UBT) on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party, accusing it of harbouring deep-seated hostility towards Maharashtra. His remarks came in response to Maharashtra minister Ashish Shelar, who controversially likened recent incidents related to Marathi language in Mumbai to the Pahalgam terror attack, drawing widespread criticism.

Aaditya Thackeray said the BJP's comparison of Maharashtra to terrorists involved in the Pahalgam incident was not only insensitive but also revealed the party's "malice and poison" against the state. He questioned why the actual perpetrators of the attack remained untraceable three months on and accused the BJP of using such analogies to de...