MNS workers protest over Chinese signboards in Thane

Over 20 Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers staged a protest at a construction site in Thane’s Balkum area on Friday evening over a signboard put up in Chinese. Protesters were seen carrying flags and shouting anti-China slogans at the site. The death of 20 Indian Army soldiers during a clash with Chinese troops at Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh earlier last week triggered demands for boycott of Chinese things in India. “The protest was against a China-based company, which had put up a signboard in Chinese at the site. Till the entire border issue is resolved, the Chinese company should not conduct any business here and the signboard should be removed at the earliest,” said Avinash Jadhav, Thane and Palghar district MNS president.