Giving an ultimatum to him at the public meeting, Singh said if Thackeray didn’t want to apologise to all of Uttar Pradesh, he could at least seek pardon from the seers of Ayodhya. “Henceforth, the sadhus and mahant of Ayodhya will decide on Thackeray,” he said, adding that five lakh people from UP, Bihar and Jharkhand will congregate in Ayodhya on June 5.

“Raj Thackeray will have to change the date of his visit even if he tenders an apology because there will be no space for him,” he said, revisiting the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's (MNS) cadres' violence against north Indians on Mumbai streets in 2008.