Mumbai, Sep 25 (Mumbai Mirror): Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray entered the world of Facebook on Sunday. After joining the social media platform, the MNS leader told his followers that his Facebook debut is an attempt to keep in constant touch with the masses.

He also shared his first cartoon on his FB page. Thackeray's cartoon, which features caricatures of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and Prime Minister Narendra Modi , was a direct attack on BJP government's attempt at bringing the 1993 blast accused back to India.

Titled 'Strokes of India' in English and 'Ek Tark Chitra' in Marathi, the cartoon shows Modi holding Dawood with a rope. However, the don, in the cartoon, is seen dragging the PM.

During the Facebook live, he claimed to his followers that the BJP government is trying to encash 'physically-handicapped' Ibrahim's wish to return to India into political favours, ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

"The government will bring him back just before the general elections and try to seek credit for it...I am not joking but it is the truth that you will realise later," he said at a function.

Hours after his debut, Thackeray's followers' strength reached 5.5 lakh plus and is rising.

Thackeray had parted ways from Shiv Sena in January 2006 to constitute MNS on March 9, 2006.