A sweet shop owner in Mumbai’s Bandra West was forced to cover his shop sign with newspaper pages after Shiv Sena leader Nitin Nandgaokar wanted Karachi dropped from its name.A video of the exchange between the two was caught on camera in which Nandgaokar is heard asking the owner to change the word ‘Karachi’ to “something in Marathi”. “You have to do it, we’re giving you time. Change ‘Karachi’ to something in Marathi,” Nandgaokar is heard saying.
Following the incident, the shop covered its name with a newspaper.
Subsequently, Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha MP, Sanjay Raut, clarified that the demand for changing the shop’s name is not the party’s official stance. Raut took to Twitter and said, “Karachi bakery and karachi sweets have been in mumbai since last 60 years. They have nothing to do with Pakistan. It makes no sense to ask for changing their names now.Demand for changing their name is not shivsena’s official stance.”
In a similar incident last year in Bengaluru, some men had allegedly barged into a Karachi Bakery, a six-decade-old bakery chain, outlet in Indiranagar and demanded that the management remove the word ‘Karachi’ from its name following the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF jawans. Eventually, nine men were arrested for threatening the outlet’s staff.
