Overview
- Mumbai Police detained five MNS supporters on July 6 for their alleged role in the July 5 vandalism of investor Sushil Kedia’s Worli office.
- Official investigations have been launched into multiple episodes of coercion by MNS cadres, including stone-pelting at Kedia’s premises and the assault of a shop owner in Mira Road for refusing to speak Marathi.
- BJP minister Ashish Shelar condemned the vigilante attacks on non-Marathi speakers as unconstitutional, drawing parallels to the Pahalgam terror attack.
- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin lauded the joint Thackeray rally as part of a broader struggle against compulsory Hindi instruction.
- Uddhav and Raj Thackeray reunited on the same stage for the first time in nearly two decades and signalled a potential joint campaign ahead of upcoming municipal elections.