Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday launched a fresh attack on Uddhav Thackeray, saying he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have made it clear that BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis will become the Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the 2019 elections.
Hitting out at Thackeray and Shiv Sena, Shah said, “Since you wanted to be the chief minister, you betrayed the BJP and became the CM by compromising on Hindutva for power.”
Addressing BJP volunteers in Pune, Shah attacked the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government and termed the Congress a “dealer”, the Shiv Sena a “broker” and said the NCP was involved in “transfer”.
Earlier, the BJP had alleged that a senior intelligence officer in the state had busted a racket of transfers of senior police officers in August 2020.
“In the presence of PM Modi and me, you were told that the elections were fought under the leadership of Devendra Fadnavis and Fadnavis would again become the CM. But you wanted to be the CM so you betrayed us (BJP) and left (of Maharashtra) chief minister. To become,” Shah said, clearly referring to Thackeray.
Shah said that he had come to Maharashtra before the 2019 elections.
“I had talks with Shiv Sena then. I would like to reiterate today that (Shiv Sena leadership was told) that the election will be fought under the leadership of Devendra Fadnavis and Chief Minister will be from BJP, but they (Shiv Sena) turned against Hindutva for power and compromised.”
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Shivsena compromised with Hindutva for power. Two generations (of Shiv Sena) fought against one party (Congress) and now they are sharing power with the same party. Shiv Sena has betrayed the BJP just for the sake of power.”
The Uddhav Thackeray-led party broke away from the BJP after the 2019 assembly elections in Maharashtra and joined hands with the Sharad Pawar-led NCP and Congress to form the government.
Shah said that Shiv Sena accuses him of lying.
“Okay, for a moment, I admit (that I was lying) but remember the banners that were put up during the election campaign. Check the size of your and Modiji’s picture. The size of your picture is one The fourth was Modiji’s photo. In every speech, you had to take Modiji’s name,” Shah said, apparently referring to Thackeray.
Playing on the DBT acronym of the Modi government’s Direct Benefit Transfer scheme, Shah said that in the MVA government, Congress takes ‘D’ for a dealer, Shiv Sena ‘B’ for broker and NCP ‘T’. transfer.
Shah said that Pune is the land of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who gave the slogan ‘Swaraj is my birthright and I will have it’, but the Shiv Sena maintains that “Satta (power) is my birthright and I will take it by any means”. I’ll keep it that way”.
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Clearly referring to the Anil Deshmukh case, Shah said (in Maharashtra) big cases have been registered in connection with taking commission for transfers and big people have gone to jail.
“This government has only two principles – criminalizing politics and doing ‘vasuli’ (extortion),” he said.
Without naming Uddhav Thackeray, Shah said that he wishes him good health.
“But when he was in good health, the people of Maharashtra used to look for him. Where is the government? But Modiji interacted 20 times with CMs of all states, he (Modi) also interacted with many hospitals during the pandemic. And Involving people in the fight against Covid-19,” he said.
He said that the central government ensured that the health infrastructure is rapidly expanded during the pandemic.
Shah said, “During the Congress rule many vaccines including polio were invented but they never reached the people, forget about their administration. On the contrary, we are now vaccinating all the people under PM Modi ji. are on the verge of completion.” ,