Calling Rahul Gandhi a warrior for standing up towards the Modi authorities, the Shiv Sena on Thursday mentioned “rulers in Delhi” are afraid of the Congress chief.
An editorial in Sena mouthpiece Saamana additionally mentioned it was a very good factor that Rahul Gandhi is turning into the Congress president.
“The rulers in Delhi fear Rahul Gandhi. Had it not been so, campaigns to discredit the Gandhi family would not have been carried out,” the editorial mentioned.
“A dictator is afraid even if one man is against him, and if this lone warrior is honest, the fear increases by a hundred times. The Delhi rulers’ fear of Rahul Gandhi is in this category,” editorial mentioned.
It is an efficient factor that Rahul Gandhi is turning into the Congress president once more, the Sena mouthpiece mentioned. “One should settle for that BJP has no different to Narendra Modi and Congress has no different to Rahul Gandhi, the Sena mentioned.
“Despite propagating that Rahul Gandhi is a weak leader, he is still standing and attacking the government at every opportunity he gets,” it mentioned. The Opposition will, sooner or later, rise from the ashes just like the Phoenix,” it added.
Shiv Sena’s reward for Rahul Gandhi comes a fortnight after Sena MP Sanjay Raut known as for increasing the scope of the Congress-led UPA bloc, saying the Opposition ought to unite towards the “dictatorial attitude” of the Centre and supply a “formidable alternative” to the Modi authorities.
Ahead of subsequent month’s Aurangabad Municipal Corporation elections, the Sena and Congress, companions within the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance in Maharashtra, have been at loggerheads over a requirement to rename that metropolis.
While the Sena needs Aurangabad renamed Sambhajinagar after a Maratha warrior, many state Congress leaders have opposed this transfer.