In a series of interviews published in the Marathi daily Saamna, chief editor and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has repeatedly praised his long-estranged nephew Raj. Following the August 11 Azad Maidan riots, Raj had led a huge protest rally and Thackeray Sr seems very pleased with it.

“At the end, who came on the street for Mumbai? The Thackeray family. Where are those who brought the Parliament to a standstill?” Bal Thackeray said in an interview carried by Saamna, the mouthpiece of the party, on Saturday.