Taking a jibe at party chief Thackeray’s son Aaditya, Kadam said the young politician should keep his age in mind while talking about his MLAs. Kadam, who was environment minister in the state from 2014 to 2019, said it was he who had banned single-use plastic in 2018, all credit was given to Aditya.
“Aditya Thackeray When I was the environment minister, he used to sit with me in the minister’s cabin for one and a half years. At the time, I didn’t think so Aditya Thackeray, who used to call me ‘uncle’, used to go ahead and serve me. I have never done politics like this in my entire life. In fact, no outsider can hold a meeting like this by sitting in the minister’s cabin. But since Aditya was Uddhav Thackeray’s son, I didn’t say anything. I took the decision to ban plastic when I was environment minister. But by giving credit to Aditya Thackeray, his stature was increased. Even then I didn’t say anything,” Kadam said.
Kadam was seen crying in television interviews, where he asked Thackeray how many people he would sack from Shiv Sena.
Kadam asked him to introspect why 50 MLAs and 12 MPs decided to support Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
Kadam said that when the rebel Shiv Sena MLAs were in Guwahati, he had spoken to Shinde about going back to the party and Shinde agreed, but the effort failed as people around Thackeray started abusing the MLAs. Started.
Kadam said that NCP supremo Sharad Pawar has finally managed to break Shiv Sena. “Sharad Pawar finally succeeded in breaking the Shiv Sena; His plan was successful. What Sharad Pawar could not do while Balasaheb was alive, he did with Uddhav Thackeray. We are fortunate that this split in Shiv Sena happened in two and a half years, otherwise the entire Shiv Sena would have ended in five years. Uddhav Thackeray should try to come with BJP in future instead of expelling us. After going to Guwahati, I discussed with Eknath Shinde the possibility of Uddhavji coming back and he agreed. But leaders around Uddhav started calling MLAs bulls, dogs, goons – and women MLAs also started calling by name,” Kadam said.
How many people is Uddhav Thackeray going to expel? 50 MLAs dismissed; Now you are going to expel 12 MPs. Shivajirao Adalrao Patil, Anandaro Adsul and now hundreds of corporators are going. Are you going to ask them too…. [I]Is this the only thing left to sit in Matoshree?” Kadam said.