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Sena protests at Kulkarni’s press conference for hosting Pak delegates

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In yet another attack on ORF chairman Sudheendra Kulkarni, Shiv Sena activists today tried to disrupt his press conference in South Mumbai for inviting Pakistani photo journalists to the city under a peace initiative.

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The incident occurred at Press Club when Sena workers barged in at the venue despite the security arrangement and raised slogans against Kulkarni and against Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism.

The Pakistani photo journalists were also present at the presser when the incident occurred.

The handful of activists were immediately detained by police and taken to Azad Maidan police station.

The Sena activists had last year smeared Kulkarnis face with black ink for organising a function to launch a book written by former Pakistan foreign minister Khursid Mehmood Kasuri.

Kulkarnis Observer Research Foundation (ORF) has launched a project Tasveer-e-Karachi Tasveer-e-Mumbai under which five photographers visit each other’s countries as “messengers of peace”.

While the five photo journalists from Pakistan arrived in the city on June 20 and will return on June 30, the Indian contingent is expected to travel to Karachi in the first week of July.

Unfazed by the ruckus, Kulkarni, erstwhile speech writer of BJP patriarch L K Advani, said, “They (Shiv Sena) threatened us saying we should not allow any Pakistani to enter Mumbai. Inspite of their threat, we conducted a programme last year for the release of Khursid Mehmood Kasuris book in Mumbai. We shall do so again and again.”

He said Mumbai did not belong to these people who claim to be the “sole preservers, protectors of the national interest”.

“We are also patriots….we equally condemn terrorism, religious extremism, but we shall not bow before these extremists who want to stop us from promoting India-Pakistan friendship,” Kulkarni said.

He later told that Sena activists tried to hit his car after the presser ended.

“While I was conducting the press conference, Sena workers barged in and created a ruckus shouting slogans like Sena zindabad and Pakistan murdabad. Also, when I was going back after conducting the press conference, they tried to hit my car,” Kulkarni said.

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