Mumbai: In a clear effort to take Shiv Sena head on in its stronghold of Mumbai, Congress on June 9 sharply attacked the saffron party's "Mee Mumbaikar" campaign and its "communal agenda".

"Sena's Mumbaikar campaign has clearly established that the party is not nationalist, but Nazist," All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Vayalar Ravi said in his hard-hitting speech at a day-long training camp of activists of Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) at Shanmukhananda Hall in Central Mumbai.

Sena's "Mee Mumbaikar" campaign, against the growing influx into the metropolis came under severe attack by senior Congress leaders, who spoke on the occasion.

The Sena, by not allowing India-Pakistan cricket matches in Mumbai, was going against the "citizens here", Ravi said adding, Congress would stringently oppose such "forces".

Congress Working Committee (CWC) member and former Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said, "Everybody knows that Mumbaikar campaign is clearly aimed at garnering votes."

Lashing out at Sena, he said the party's ideological contradictions are exposed, as on one hand it gives "Mee Mumbaikar" call and on the other contemplates to spread the party in other places in the country.

Deshmukh said, "People are not going to be deceived by such campaigns henceforth."

PTI