MNS threatens to intensify action against stores selling Pak-made goods

Shiv Kumar

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Tribune News Service

Mumbai, May 1

Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena on Monday threatened to attack more such stores that were selling Pakistan-made goods, a day after several of the party’s cadres attacked an H&M store in suburban Mumbai.

“Earlier we had sent out notices asking stores to stop selling Pakistan-made products. Now we will show them in our own style,” Maharashtra Navnirman Vidyarthi Sena vice president Akhil Chitre said.

On Sunday, eleven Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists were arrested after they ransacked an H&M outlet at Inorbit Mall in suburban Malad which was found selling garments made in Pakistan.

Police said MNS workers barged into the store at around 4.30 pm and downed the shutters of the shop before throwing several garments with Pakistan tags on the road and setting them on fire.

Chitre said the MNS had “issued notices” to stores like H&M and Zara which sold garments made in Pakistan asking them to take them off the shelves.

Last week MNS activists held protests outside Zara stores in Mumbai.

He added that the MNS would further intensify its protests if stores were found selling Pakistan-made goods.

Earlier, the MNS called for a boycott of Pakistan-made goods in Mumbai because that country had sentenced alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav to death.