Sena wants Bharat Ratna for Sachin Tendulkar

Mumbai: Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar’s double-hundred against South Africa in Gwalior on Wednesday has not only silenced his critics, but also clean bowled the Shiv Sena, which took on the little master for his ‘Mumbai for all’ remark.

The same Shiv Sena, whose leaders questioned Tendulkar’s loyalty to Maharashtra following the remark, wants to felicitate the star for making Mumbai and the state proud. They also want the Centre to confer the Bharat Ratna on him.

On Friday, showering praise on the cricketing legend, the Shiv Sena leadership in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) decided to confer the star with a citizen’s award.

During BMC’s general body meeting, opposition leader Rajhans Singh (Congress) demanded Tendulkar’s felicitation to celebrate another world record set by him. Claiming that Tendulkar has made the city proud yet again, Sena leader Sunil Prabhu asked the civic body to make arrangements for a grand felicitation in the near future.