After sharing a documentary detailing an alleged long-standing friendship between industrialist Gautam Adani and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his social media accounts a few days ago, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray said Sunday that he has now deleted the post. Thackeray said he took it down at the Mumbai Police Commissioner’s direct request.

“I shared a documentary by Sabir Bhatia on my social media detailing the long-standing friendship between Gautam Adani and Narendra Modi, and how the Indian industrial landscape is consequently being handed over to Adani. It garnered over 4.8 million views on Twitter alone and received an overwhelming response on Facebook as well, not to mention the additional, uncounted views from shares by others,” the MNS chief said in a post on X.

Stating that his goal was to highlight a serious matter, Thackeray added, “My intention was for this serious issue to reach the public, and that objective has been achieved.…