2 min learnPuneAug 31, 2026 10:35 PM IST
After Pune police registered a prison case in opposition to him on Monday, Amit Thackeray stated he was happy with eradicating a portrait of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from a authorities school in Pune.
Amit, son of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, had visited Authorities Polytechnic School, Shivajinagar, as a part of a scholar interplay and membership programme.
Throughout the go to, he requested his supporters to take away {a photograph} of the Prime Minister hanging on an workplace wall.
“Sure, I obtained the portrait of the Prime Minister hanging straight beside the portraits of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar eliminated,” Amit Thackeray instructed reporters.
“The primary cost filed in opposition to me was for the honour of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj; and the second cost filed in opposition to me in the present day is for the honour of the nice visionary Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. I’m immensely happy with each these fees,” he added.
The BJP condemned the act and demanded that an FIR be filed in opposition to Amit Thackeray. “Amit Thackeray has insulted the Prime Minister… A case ought to be filed in opposition to him,” stated BJP spokesperson Navnath Ban.
Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson Sushma Andhare stated, “BJP ought to cease hitting the bottom considering it’s a snake… Amit Thackeray didn’t say that PM Modi’s picture shouldn’t be there in any respect; his stance is that PM Modi’s picture shouldn’t be positioned subsequent to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.”
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Dr Rajendra Patil of Authorities Polytechnic lodged the primary data report (FIR) at Chaturshringi police station.
As per the FIR, Amit Thackeray and 25 different MNS staff allegedly gathered on the premises of Authorities Polytechnic round 12.30 pm.
They allegedly took down the PM’s picture body, threatened school staffers and brought on a ruckus on the spot.
Police booked the MNS staff underneath Sections 329(3) (prison trespass), 189(1) (illegal meeting), 221 (obstructing a public servant) and 351(2) (prison intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), in addition to sections of the Maharashtra Police Act.
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School authorities later put the PM’s {photograph} again in the identical spot.
