Tamil → English transcript

I never realized that I’ve risen to the level where,

today, a farmer’s son like me is being abused by gathering a crowd in Mumbai.

That is why I have the greatest respect for Balasaheb Thackeray.

So in our Bharatiya Janata Party office,

when I was serving as the state president,

along with two people their photos would be here in my heart.

One is Chhatrapati Shivaji, the other is Mahakavi Bharathi. We would also keep

Thiruvalluvar and all of them. But these people, by issuing such threats,

that Shiv Sena— today Thackeray’s Shiv Sena— their newspaper, like our Murasoli,

they have one called Saamana.

In that they wrote,“ If he comes into Mumbai, I will cut off his leg,

I will beat him up here.” I am definitely going to Mumbai. You try beating me here,

try cutting off my leg, we will see at least one of those two happen.

So if I had been scared of all these threats,

I should have just stayed back quietly in my own village. The second.

Today, when I say that the Prime Minister of India is Narendra Modi,

does that mean he is not a Gujarati? Likewise, when I say that Kamaraj

Ayya is a great leader of India, does that mean he is not a Tamil? Today, when

we say that Mumbai is the capital of the world can we deny that it is not a

city built by the Marathis?

Can we deny that it is a city elevated by the hard work of the Marathi brothers and

sisters living there in Mumbai?

All this is the pride and identity that one can speak of for that city.

Just as the Prime Minister of Bharat,

Narendra Modi When we say the leader of India is the leader of the world,

will we forget the place and the soil where he was born? They are all fools.

People with no sense.

There is this person there called Sanjay Raut.

Without even knowing what he is talking about, in the morning he

meets the journalists The only morning job of Sanjay Raut is to vomit.

At six o’clock he has to vomit.

For that, four press meetings have to be held.

Today three Thackerays held a meeting and issued threats.

It’s nothing new for me that you humiliate me.

In Tamil Nadu, the DMK has been doing only that all along.

But they are humiliating Tamils themselves. People who wear lungis,

people who wear dhotis, people like this, people like that. In that same alliance,

the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is here. That is what is surprising.

So let it be DMK in Tamil Nadu, and those who are there today, let it be this

Uddhav Thackeray, Raj Thackeray, or Aaditya Thackeray.

All of them are just bullying and threatening to run their livelihood. They think we

will be scared. If Balasaheb Thackeray had been alive,

none of these people would have been around at all.