Mumbai, June 20 -- Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday accused the ruling dispensation of deliberately fuelling "artificial political controversies" to divert public attention from pressing issues including unemployment, agrarian distress and farmer suicides, while warning against what he termed the growing concentration of economic and political power in the state.
Speaking at a party office-bearers' meeting at Rangsharda Auditorium in Mumbai, Raj Thackeray questioned the morality of the current political climate where legislators are allegedly being "bought and sold" for crores of rupees while the common man suffers.
The MNS chief also sounded an alarm over the state's power sector, claiming that Maharashtra...