India, July 26 -- Amid the massive outrage over paper leak and student protests, which led to the resignation of former Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday in an interview to his party mouthpiece Saamana called people the "Avatar of Vishnu". He said that with the protest at Jantar Mantar, people across the country have now "overcome fear of the Modi-Shah regime of terror and are now coming on the roads against the central government despite life threat".

Thackeray compared the people's protest with the "Avatar of Lord Vishnu" (who according to Hindu mythology takes birth to end the devil) saying that when citizens unite against injustice, even the most powerful governments can't f...