Mr Shah reiterated that there was no closed-door promise to share the CM’s post equally between two different saffron allies.
Mr Shah reiterated that there was no closed-door promise to share the CM’s post equally between two different saffron allies.
Protesting against Uddhav Thackeray and his Shiv Sena faction ahead of the crucial Brihanmumbai Corporation (BMC) elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday hit out at the Shiv Sena president, accusing Thackeray of betraying the BJP during the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance. . In the past, encouraging his party cadre to teach a lesson to the Thackeray faction in the upcoming municipal elections.
Mr Shah along with Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis addressed BJP office-bearers and MLAs in a closed meeting. Meghdoot‘In South Mumbai.
Directly accusing Mr Thackeray of severing the long-standing ties between the BJP and Shiv Sena in the past, Mr Shah said the sole reason for Shiv Sena becoming a ‘small party’ in Maharashtra during the alliance with the BJP was . to Mr. Thackeray’s arrogance.”
“The BJP never made the comment of ‘big brother-younger brother’. it’s yours [Uddhav’s] The arrogance that is responsible for Shiv Sena being a small party today. In 2014, Uddhav Thackeray broke the alliance with BJP for just two seats. [during the seat-sharing negotiations]”The home minister said.
Mr Shah reiterated that there was no closed-door promise to share the CM’s post equally between two different saffron allies.
“In 2019, Mr Thackeray and Shiv Sena had sought votes in the name of PM Narendra Modi and Devendra Fadnavis [then CM candidate of the BJP-Sena coalition], It was decided that the CM would be of BJP. [Mr. Fadnavis], But later Uddhav Thackeray betrayed us and stabbed BJP in the back by aligning with NCP and Congress so that he can become CM… I am witness to the whole chronology. There was no power-sharing deal,” he said, adding that the BJP does not do such deals behind closed rooms.
Serious flaws in the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance were first revealed when the two long-standing allies of more than 25 years decided to fight independently in the 2014 assembly elections. The tussle over the seat-sharing arrangement with PM Modi’s dominance at the center had given rise to this controversy.
However, both the parties formed an uneasy alliance after the 2014 election, which lasted till 2019. The final breakdown came after the 2019 assembly election when Mr Thackeray parted ways with the BJP over the CM’s post and formed an alliance with the NCP and the Congress, despite being in alliance with the Congress. BJP-Shiv Sena got mandate
Urging BJP leaders and office bearers to defeat Mr Thackeray’s Shiv Sena faction and take control of the BMC, Mr Shah said injustice can be tolerated in politics, but deceit has no place to be tolerated.
He accused Mr Thackeray of “sinking all the principles” of his father, late Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, by forging an alliance with the ideologically antagonistic Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress after the 2019 assembly election results.
Mr. Shah said, “The time has come to show the Thackeray faction in its place and eliminate anti-Hindu politics from Maharashtra.”
According to sources, the Home Minister has set a target for the BJP to win 150 out of 227 seats in the cash-rich BMC.
Issuing a clarion call of ‘now or never’, Mr Fadnavis exhorted his partymen to contest the BMC elections as “this was his last election”.
Meanwhile, the Thackeray faction hit back at Mr Shah with MP Arvind Sawant, a loyalist of the Uddhav camp, saying the Union home minister was part of “a new BJP” who habitually went back on his word.
“they [the BJP] It should not be forgotten that they could develop in Maharashtra only because of Bal Thackeray. By holding Balasaheb’s hand, the BJP grew bigger.
Commenting that the ‘old BJP’ of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK Advani had disappeared, Mr. Sawant categorically remarked that the ‘new BJP’ of Modi and Shah failed to understand the meaning of ‘gratitude’.
“Today, your [BJP’s] The agenda is to destroy all its regional allies. Uddhav Thackeray understands all this very well.”