Express News Service
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday rejected the AIMIM’s supply of alliance, terming it a BJP ploy to defame the Shiv Sena which is heading the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities within the state.
Addressing Sena MPs and different leaders, together with district presidents, through video hyperlink, Uddhav stated, “The Shiv Sena will never ally with the AIMIM, which is the ‘B’ team of the BJP… Who has sought an alliance with the AIMIM? This is a game plan and conspiracy of the BJP. The AIMIM and the BJP have a tacit understanding. The BJP has ordered the AIMIM to defame the Shiv Sena, to raise questions on Sena’s Hindutva. Accordingly, the AIMIM leaders are making the offer.”
AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel had on Saturday stated the social gathering was able to ally with the MVA to stop the BJP from coming to energy.
The NCP and Congress, the opposite two companions within the MVA, had stated the AIMIM should show that it was a “like-minded” social gathering and never the “BJP’s B-team”.
Raut, a Rajya Sabha MP, stated the Sena will launch ‘Shiv Sampark Mohim’, a mass outreach programme, on March 22 in 19 districts throughout Vidarbha and Marathwada areas in Maharashtra on Thackeray’s orders to dispel the confusion the BJP was making an attempt to create about Sena on varied points.
“Uddhav ji said Shiv Sena will never join forces with the AIMIM. The Shiv Sena president also said that his party had never been associated with and will never be associated with those who bow before the grave of Aurangzeb,” Raut stated.
The chief minister has requested Shiv Sena leaders to “destroy” those that are doubting Hindutva propagated by the social gathering, he stated.
Senior BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday termed Shiv Sena “Janab Sena” whereas responding to AIMIM’s alliance supply to the Thackeray-led social gathering.
Responding to the jibe, Thackeray stated the Sena at all times believed that Hindutva was above politics.
“What Janab Sena? The Shiv Sena is a staunch Hindutvavadi organisation. It was and will remain Hindutvavadi. The Shiv Sena’s Hindutva is not adulterated,” he stated.
Raut recalled that the BJP had fashioned a authorities with the “pro-Pakistan and separatist” PDP in Jammu-Kashmir (in 2015).
He sarcastically stated that it was a “revolutionary alliance” (between PDP-BJP) that gave a brand new “direction” to the nation.
“Now, we will tell the people which is the real Janab Sena,” Raut stated quoting Thackeray.
In the assembly, Thackeray recalled that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had said that those that take positions in opposition to Muslims “are not true Hindutvavadis and cannot be called Hindus,” Raut added.
Thackeray additionally accused Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari of “murdering democracy” by delaying the approval to 12 names despatched by the MVA to him to be appointed as MLCs from the Governor’s quota.
AIMIM MP Jaleel had stated that AIMIM was at all times blamed for BJP’s victory in polls and dubbed the ‘B’ group of that social gathering.
“To prove this allegation wrong, I proposed to Rajesh Tope (Maharashtra health minister and NCP leader) that we are ready for an alliance,” he had advised a Marathi information channel.
Arguing for the alliance, he additionally stated, “There is no power left in them (Shiv Sena) to defeat the BJP single-handed. That’s why they need the support of Congress and NCP. I propose that let’s add another wheel to the (three-wheeled) autorickshaw and make it a comfortable car. We have expelled the corporator who had opposed the singing of ‘Vande Mataram’ (in the Aurangabad municipal corporation) and he has joined the NCP now”.
On Saturday, BJP chief and former CM Devendra Fadnavis had taken a swipe on the Shiv Sena, calling it ‘Janab Sena’, after the AIMIM’s alliance supply to the Thackeray-led social gathering.
Responding to the jibe, Uddhav referred to the BJP’s tie-up with the PDP, questioning if the social gathering must be known as ‘Hizbul Janata Party’.
“In 2015, the BJP allied with Mehbooba Mufti, whose party had opposed the hanging of terrorist Afzal Guru… Our Hindutva is different from BJP’s Hindutva, which is aimed at power-grabbing at any cost. We parted ways with the BJP, not with Hindutva,” he stated.
Announcing to launch a public outreach drive, ‘Shiv Sampark Mohim’, from March 22 in Marathwada and Vidarbha, he requested social gathering leaders to spotlight “the illusion and confusion” the BJP is making an attempt to create on varied points by unleashing its propaganda equipment on the strains of the Nazis.
He exhorted Shiv Sena leaders and staff to increase the social gathering’s base, particularly in BJP bastions.
“In the past, we could not contest many seats because of our alliance with the BJP. Now, we should focus on these seats and reach out to every household,” he stated.
NCP president Sharad Pawar on Sunday stated his social gathering was not inclined to ally with AIMIM, a day after AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel proposed an alliance with tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), headed by Shiv Sena.
The Shiv Sena has already rejected Jaleel’s suggestion for an alliance.
“I have been reading about this statement (of Jaleel) but I want to clarify that this is not our party’s stand (to ally with AIMIM),” Pawar advised reporters at Baramati within the Pune district.
“They (AIMIM) can talk about alliances but the parties they are talking about should accept such proposal in the first place,” the previous Union minister stated.
Pawar stated although the AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) proposed a tie-up on the state stage, the formation of such an alliance needs to be permitted by the nationwide committee of political events.
Speaking at one other occasion, Pawar spoke a couple of doable assembly with authorities relating to one other Pune airport, the placement for which is but to be finalised.
“Various defence establishments are located in and around Pune. Every morning, IAF conducts training sorties in these areas. We need to understand their (defence’s) views and for that, we will hold a meeting in the next fortnight,” Pawar stated.
(With PTI Inputs)
