Maharashtra CM accuses Thackeray of betraying his father Bal Thackeray by forming an alliance with Congress
Maharashtra CM accuses Thackeray of betraying his father Bal Thackeray by forming an alliance with Congress
Bumping the Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) for the upcoming civic polls in Maharashtra, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday accused Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray of betraying not only his father – late Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. Allied with the Congress, but was responsible for the declining Marathi speaking population in the city of Mumbai.
Addressing a massive rally at Paithan in Aurangabad district, Mr. Shinde, whose rebel Shiv Sena faction is in alliance with the BJP, demanded that Mr. Thackeray, the former chief minister, explain to the people of the state why the Marathi-speaking population was in Mumbai. Went out.
“If they [Uddhav camp] If Mumbai is so concerned, why not? [Mr. Thackeray] Publish how many Marathi speaking people are left in Mumbai? Have you bothered to analyze why they have been expelled from Mumbai and forced to move to suburbs like Virar and Badlapur? they need to analyze it through face [Thackeray faction’s mouthpiece]But they will not have the courage to do so,” Mr. Shinde said.
The Chief Minister said that if Thackeray had understood the plight of the Marathi speaking people, his percentage in the city of Mumbai would not have decreased.
He claimed that while the Thackeray faction has no problem in seeking votes in the name of Marathi speaking people, their plight was ignored after the elections were over.
show of strength
The motive behind Mr Shinde’s show of strength is to challenge the troubled Thackeray faction in the latter’s strongholds in Mumbai and Aurangabad municipal bodies, where the Thackeray-led Shiv Sena has ruled for more than two decades.
This time, with Mr Shinde forging an alliance with the BJP with most of the Shiv Sena MLAs and MPs, both the parties are intent on ending Thackeray’s supremacy in these two municipal bodies.
Commenting on Mr. Thackeray that he has to answer before the people of Maharashtra why he betrayed Bal Thackeray and drowned his father’s Hindutva ideals by forming an alliance with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party, Mr. Shinde said: “Today, we have 160 MLAs, but in the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections, Shiv Sena will see 200 MLAs. [Shinde faction]-BJP alliance.”
Commenting that the Uddhav camp is left with nothing but to take a petty ridicule on the Shinde camp today, the Chief Minister said that his faction will give a befitting reply to Mr Thackeray through his work.
“We don’t need to pay crowds for our rallies,” Mr Shinde said, pointing to the Thackeray camp’s allegation that the rebel faction was paying people to increase its audience.
Claiming that the grave of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon was ‘beautified’ during Mr Thackeray’s MVA government, Mr Shinde hit out at the rival army camp’s charge that the rebels were only ‘grandmothers’ of the BJP. Were.
“It is better to be one of the Prime Minister than to be the maidservant of traitors like Memon” [Narendra] Modi and [Union Home Minister] Amit Shah, who dared to abolish Article 370 in Kashmir,” said the Chief Minister.