Mumbai, July 3 -- Shiv Sena chief and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray today announced that his party will launch a protest movement against stolen Ram temple donations, which he alleged were used to purchase MPs of opposition parties, engineer their defections and split these organisations.

"The BJP has carried out an 'Operation Ram Mandir' in order to break MPs and MLAs away from their political parties. They looted money from the donation box of the Ram temple. We will launch a Maharashtra-wide Ram Raksha movement. Shiv Sena leaders will visit the Hanuman Temple in Mumbai's Dadar West on Sunday evening to recite the Ram Raksha Stotra, Maruti Stotra and Hanuman Chalisa. We will tell the people what they have done," Uddh...