The hate-campaign unleashed by the Thackerays in Mumbai against the Biharis echoed in the state Assembly here on Friday when Bihar Governor R S Gavai, a Maharashtrian, was addressing the joint session of the House.

As the leaders cutting across party lines were infuriated over the attack on Biharis in Maharashtra, it was the governor who was in the line of fire.

Slogans against Guv

The vociferous Opposition leaders, comprising mostly RJD legislators, shouted slogans against the governor and created a ruckus in the House as his (Gavai’s) joint address did not mention about the reign of terror unleashed by Raj Thackeray and his cohorts in his (governor’s) home state, Maharashtra.

Leader of the Opposition Rabri Devi, who was also present in the House made no attempt to calm down her party colleagues, apparently because she was peeved over the report in which Bal Thackeray had dared her husband and RJD chief Lalu Prasad to perform Chhath puja in Chennai.

A visibly embarrassed Gavai, who recently had said that he was a Bihari, not a Maharashtrian, later said that the divisive politics unleashed in Mumbai does not augur well for the Indian democracy.

“But then, the Opposition has every right to oppose me,” he quipped. Earlier, the state unit of the SP had threatened that if attacks on Biharis were not checked in Mumbai and adjoining areas, they would resort a tit-for-tat tactics and target Gavai in Patna.