By PTI
MUMBAI: Striking a defiant notice, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday evening dared insurgent chief Eknath Shinde and the BJP to try to take away the Shiv Sena cadre and people who vote for the get together, and in addition accused the BJP of making an attempt to complete off the Sena.
In a digital deal with to get together corporators, he stated that the frequent Shiv Sena employees had been his “wealth”, and so long as they had been with him, he didn’t care about criticism by others. The Shiv Sena has been “betrayed by its own people,” he stated, as his authorities confronted a disaster after majority of Sena MLAs joined Eknath Shinde who’s tenting in Guwahati.
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“We gave these rebels tickets to contest assembly elections despite many of you being aspirants for the same. These people are disgruntled after getting elected owing to your hard work, and you are standing by the party in this crucial time. I can’t thank you enough,” Thackeray, who can be the Shiv Sena president, advised get together employees.
“I had told Eknath Shinde to look into complaints regarding alliance partners. He told me that legislators were pressurizing him that the Sena should join hands with the BJP. I told him to bring these MLAs to me, let’s discuss this. BJP treated us badly, didn’t honour promises. Many of the rebels have cases filed against them. So if they go with BJP, they will become clean, if they stayed with us, they will go to jail. Is this a sign of friendship?” Thackeray requested.
“If a Shiv Sena worker is going to become a chief minister, you should go (with the BJP). But if you are, after all, going to become a deputy chief minister, you should have told me, I would have made you deputy chief minister,” he stated, apparently referring to Shinde.
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If Sena employees felt that he was incapable of operating the get together, he was able to resign as get together president, Thackeray additional stated.
“Shiv Sena is an ideology…BJP wants to finish it off because they don’t want to share the Hindu vote bank with anyone,” he stated, including that late Bal Thackeray had initiated the alliance with the BJP solely to keep away from a break up in Hindutva votes.
“The rebel group has no option but to join the BJP, and even if it succeeded in forming the government, it will not last long because many MLAs among them are not really happy. The rebels will not be able to win the next election,” Thackeray claimed.
Hitting out at Shinde and BJP, he dared them to try to lure away the Shiv Sena’s voters. “You have taken away those who got elected. But if you have the courage, try and take away those who got you elected. Those who want to leave are free to go openly….I will create a new Shiv Sena,” he stated.
