Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said the state Legislative Council elections scheduled for Monday will show that there will be no division in his party-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and ruled out the possibility of cross-voting. “We have put all our MLAs together for the Legislative Council elections to be held tomorrow.
This is called democracy in today’s time. Thackeray said the party will have to work hard in future to elect more MLAs, whose party shares power with the NCP and Congress in the state. Thackeray also said that he is not worried about the MLC elections to be held on Monday.
“The defeat in the Rajya Sabha elections (held on June 10 for six seats in Maharashtra) was unfortunate. Shiv Sena’s votes were not divided in the Rajya Sabha elections. We have an idea of what went wrong. So, there is no question of cross-voting tomorrow,” he said. He said that there are no traitors among Shiv Sena.
“Tomorrow’s election will show that there is no division between us,” he said. Thackeray expressed confidence that both the Shiv Sena candidates – Sachin Ahir and Amshya Padvi – would emerge as the new leaders in the MLC elections. The CM also said that he had spoken to Shiv Sena’s current MLC and senior leaders Subhash Desai and Diwakar Rawate, who immediately agreed to part ways.
Thackeray said he has not re-nominated Desai and Rawate for another term in the Legislative Council. “But, they are completely committed to Shiv Sena as they belong to the original team of (late Shiv Sena supremo) Balasaheb Thackeray when he formed the party. I will not let him retire. I want them to strengthen Shiv Sena,” he said. A total of 11 candidates are in the fray for the 10 council seats, with MVA allies – Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress – fielding two candidates each. BJP has nominated five candidates.
In the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections for a total of six seats, the BJP led by Devendra Fadnavis captured all three seats, while the numbers on paper appeared in favor of the MVA. In a setback to the MVA, BJP’s third candidate Dhananjay Mahadik defeated Shiv Sena’s second candidate Sanjay Pawar. Meanwhile, the CM also said that while speaking as a Hindu was considered a crime, (his father) Balasaheb Thackeray aggressively raised Hindutva.
“The 56-year-old party was formed by my father. We will be around for many years. We have answered the critics who questioned the future of Shiv Sena after Balasaheb. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut called Balasaheb Thackeray the ‘Father of Hindutva’. The Rajya Sabha member said that when Uddhav Thackeray garlanded the late Balasaheb’s portrait, Aaditya Thackeray (Chief Minister’s son and current state cabinet minister) reminded the CM that ‘Father’s Day’ was being celebrated on Sunday.
In the wake of Shiv Sena winning 56 assembly seats in the 2019 state elections and the party’s 56th foundation day on Sunday, Raut, referring to the title of a film, said, “Ab Tak Chhappan (Ab Tak 56) … we still have There is a long way to go. To start walking. Tell this clearly to our political rivals.
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