'Calling 'traitor' a 'traitor' not offensive': Uddhav Thackeray defends Kunal Kamra

Uddhav Thackeray defended comedian Kunal Kamra's comments on Eknath Shinde, stating that 'calling a traitor a traitor is not wrong'.

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00:00Live now to Udhav Thackeray who is currently speaking on the Kunal Kamra controversy.

00:30Live now to Udhav Thackeray who is currently speaking on the Kunal Kamra controversy.

01:00Live now to Udhav Thackeray who is currently speaking on the Kunal Kamra controversy.

01:30Live now to Udhav Thackeray who is currently speaking on the Kunal Kamra controversy.

02:01Live now to Udhav Thackeray who is currently speaking on the Kunal Kamra controversy.

02:19Okay so that's Udhav Thackeray clearly saying the what Kunal Kamra said was correct.

02:24But backing the comedian amid this controversy over Kamra's comments on Eknath Shinde, Udhav

02:29Thackeray says, you will call a Gaddar, a Gaddar, so what's wrong with that?

02:34That is in fact the reaction coming in from UBT Sena, he is reacting to the vandalism

02:39spree by Shiv Sena, he says that they are not part of the Shiv Sena, anyone who is a

02:44traitor is not a part of the Shiv Sena and so these are people who are not Shiv Sena.

02:48So Udhav Thackeray lashing out at Eknath Shinde saying that it's not offensive to refer to

02:53a traitor as a traitor.

02:56Let's bring in Hrithvik for more details, so on this Hrithvik, the Udhav Sena clearly

03:00backing Kunal Kamra interestingly enough because previously too they have been rather critical

03:05of the comedian.

03:06Absolutely Udhav Thackeray while speaking to media has backed Kunal Kamra's act and

03:15he has clarified that whatever poetry or the gig Kunal Kamra represents the reality of

03:25Maharashtra's state politics and it is not a satire is what he is trying to tell.

03:31At the same time he is also saying that the legacy of Balasaheb Thackeray's ideology is

03:37carried forward by Udhav Thackeray and not by the Gaddar Sena but at the same time he

03:44is also questioning the law and order situation in the state because if the demolition drive

03:51is conducted to demolish Fahim Khan's illegal structure in Nagpur as well as the studio

03:59in Khar where Kunal Kamra presented his gig he is asking that will the structures of those

04:06would be raised those who have made provocative statements as who have incited violence in

04:13Nagpur. Okay so the comment coming in right now from Udhav Thackeray saying very clearly

04:19that Kunal Kamra has only presented the reality of Eknath Shinde so there's nothing offensive

04:24in what he said this comes even as his son Aditya Thackeray too has said that Eknath

04:29Shinde is acting like a coward by going after Kunal Kamra this at a time when we're seeing

04:35of course outrage speaking and the Mahayati including Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis

04:40has completely backed Eknath Shinde saying that what in fact Kunal Kamra has said

04:44is not comedy but an insult a personal insult and that's why he's also been booked right now.