By SUNIL Sonkar

Mumbai, Feb. 13 — Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray continued his tirade against Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Saturday asking whether he was the CM or bodyguard of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan.

In an editorial in Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece ‘Saamna’ he said, “Is Chavan the chief minister of Maharashtra or actor Shah Rukh Khan’s bodyguard? If it is the latter, then he should adorn the uniform of a security guard and stand outside Khan’s ‘Mannat’ bungalow here, saluting the passers-by.”

He also added there, “What different work has Chavan done for the last seven-eight days,” Thackeray asked and flayed Chavan for “siding with Pak-lover Khan.”

Thackeray mentioned further in the herald that the entire police force of Maharashtra has been used as SRK’s “slave and domestic help”. He referred to all the police action taken against the Shiv Sainiks during the agitation against King Khan’s movie release ‘My Name Is Khan’.

He said, “The only thing that remains is to erect a marble memorial for Kasab and his nine dead accomplices and ask policemen to salute it.”

On Friday, on the day of the release of ‘My Name Is Khan’, Thackeray had accused Ashok Chavan of “succumbing to vote-bank politics and deploying tight security with AK-47s to ensure that Khan’s film release was smooth.”

He said, “He arrested thousands of Shiv Sainiks and beat them up till they bled and put them in jail. In the end there was no place remaining in jail. For one Khan, how weak and helpless the chief minister has become.”