Mumbai: Maha Vikash Aghadi (MVA) ally, Shiv Sena (UBT) President and ex-CM Uddhav Thackeray on Friday issued a clarion call to the people asking them to participate in Saturday’s Maharashtra Bandh (shutdown) wholeheartedly to protest against ‘perverse mentality’ in the state, here.

He said that the shutdown will commence from Saturday morning and will be on till 2 p.m., while all essential services shall be exempt, urged for stopping local trains and bus services during half-day ‘bandh’, called by the combined Opposition including Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (SP), Shiv Sena (UBT), plus other allies.

“Tomorrow’s ‘bandh’ is not political. There’s a fear in the minds of the people not only in Maharashtra but across India. The masses are concerned about the safety and security of their little girls, daughters, women who go to schools, colleges, hospitals, offices and other places. The ‘bandh’ is to express their sentiments against the perversity,” said Thackeray.