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TAking on the william makepeace thackeray fellowship, former Tamil Nadu BJP chair K Annamalai on mon said that he won’t be afraid of intimidation by MNS and Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders that his legs testament be cut-off if he entered Mumbai again.“I will come to Mumbai again. Do whatever you can. If I were to get scared of such threats and intimidation, I would have remained in my native village forever,” Annamalai told reporters in Chennai on Monday. “Just like Murasoli (DMK’s party organ) here, Shiv Sena runs a newspaper called Saamana in which they wrote that if I entered Mumbai, they would cut off my leg.”On January 9, while campaigning for his party during their campaign during the recently concluded Mumbai civic elections, Annamalai said, “Bombay is not a Maharashtrian city but an international city,” leading to immediate backlash from the Maharashta Navanirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena (UBT).Annamalai on Monday questioned whether he had become a leader “important” enough for MNS chief Raj Thackeray to organise a public meeting in Mumbai to allegedly attack him.Annamalai added that he respected Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray and he had a picture of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in his office when he was the state president of Tamil Nadu until last year.Raj Thackeray on Sunday called Annamalai a “rasmalai” and allegedly revived the ‘Hatao Lungi, Bajao Pungi’ slogan from the 1960s largely viewed as discriminatory towards Tamilians. “Who are Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray to threaten me? I am proud to be a farmer’s son. They have organised meetings just to abuse me,” Annamalai said.Annamalai wondered further how speaking about leaders or cities outside one’s home state undermined the identity of a state or region.“If we call Prime Minister Narendra Modi the leader of India does that mean he stops being a Gujarati? If we call Kamaraj (late Congress chief minister), a great leader of India, does that mean he stops being a Tamil?” Annamalai asked.“Similarly, when we call Mumbai the capital of the world does that mean it is not a city built by Maharashtrians? Does it mean that Mumbai was not built by the hard work of Marathi brothers and sisters?”

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