We All know about Aditi Puri Veg restaurant showing mirror to UPA government, Though in his own way, and I salute them.
A Mumbai restaurant hounded and gagged over a one-liner on its bills mocking the UPA government may face more trouble ahead with youth Congress workers pressing the city's civic body to tear down its illegal structures.
After aggressive tactics by Congress workers, the Aditi Pure Veg restaurant in central Mumbai removed the "offending" message from its bills served to customers - "As per UPA government, eating money (2G, Coal, CWG scam) is a necessity and eating food in an AC restaurant is a luxury."
But if Congress activists have their way, the restaurant could face civic bulldozers. The workers had forced the eatery to shut down on Monday and even filed a defamation complaint.
"We have received complaints about Aditi restaurant's illegal construction and misbehaviour with customers," Vishwajeet Kadam, the state Youth Congress chief. The youth workers have complained to Mumbai's civic body, BMC.
Congress members say the restaurateur, Srinivas Shetty, has been spared any crackdown for his illegal structures due to the support of the Shiv Sena-BJP combine ruling the BMC. They also allege it was the Sena which put Shetty up to the task of mocking the UPA.
The Mumbai Congress workers may be emboldened by the silence from the party's leadership in New Delhi, despite the nationwide outrage that followed the ransacking and bullying of the eatery.
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, did criticize intolerance, but equally slammed the restaurant.
"Any kind of intolerance is not Congress Culture. But a restaurant writing what it did in the bill is it justified?" asked Mr Singh in a tweet, even as netizens tweeted away their disapproval on the trending hashtag #AditiRestaurant.
Since its run-in with the Congress, which became a hot topic on social forums, Aditi Pure Veg has been drawing larger-than-usual crowds. A customer said the owner should not have been forced to remove the comment. "What about freedom of speech?"
A Mumbai restaurant hounded and gagged over a one-liner on its bills mocking the UPA government may face more trouble ahead with youth Congress workers pressing the city's civic body to tear down its illegal structures.
After aggressive tactics by Congress workers, the Aditi Pure Veg restaurant in central Mumbai removed the "offending" message from its bills served to customers - "As per UPA government, eating money (2G, Coal, CWG scam) is a necessity and eating food in an AC restaurant is a luxury."
But if Congress activists have their way, the restaurant could face civic bulldozers. The workers had forced the eatery to shut down on Monday and even filed a defamation complaint.
"We have received complaints about Aditi restaurant's illegal construction and misbehaviour with customers," Vishwajeet Kadam, the state Youth Congress chief. The youth workers have complained to Mumbai's civic body, BMC.
Congress members say the restaurateur, Srinivas Shetty, has been spared any crackdown for his illegal structures due to the support of the Shiv Sena-BJP combine ruling the BMC. They also allege it was the Sena which put Shetty up to the task of mocking the UPA.
The Mumbai Congress workers may be emboldened by the silence from the party's leadership in New Delhi, despite the nationwide outrage that followed the ransacking and bullying of the eatery.
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, did criticize intolerance, but equally slammed the restaurant.
"Any kind of intolerance is not Congress Culture. But a restaurant writing what it did in the bill is it justified?" asked Mr Singh in a tweet, even as netizens tweeted away their disapproval on the trending hashtag #AditiRestaurant.
Since its run-in with the Congress, which became a hot topic on social forums, Aditi Pure Veg has been drawing larger-than-usual crowds. A customer said the owner should not have been forced to remove the comment. "What about freedom of speech?"
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