By PTI
MUMBAI: Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar on Wednesday said it would have been greater had his social gathering colleague and Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil not made his remark regarding the perform of Shiv Sena workers inside the Babri Masjid demolition.
Patil’s assertion that not a single Sena worker was present when the Babri mosque in Ayodhya was demolished in 1992 has put the Bharatiya Janata Party in a spot, as it is a companion of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena inside the Maharashtra authorities.
Shelar’s response obtained right here after he met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi.
“Patil made those comments in personal capacity. Perhaps it would have been better had he not made those comments,” he knowledgeable reporters.
“All were working to bring together various communities and groups. Balasaheb’s (late Sena founder Bal Thackeray) role in it (Ram Janmabhoomi movement) was helpful and supportive. We have welcomed it, respected it and honoured his (Bal Thackeray’s) views in this movement,” he said.
“I want to ask Uddhav ji (Uddhav Thackeray) what was his role in the whole (Babri Masjid demolition) operation,” Shelar, a former Maharashtra minister, extra said.
The BJP believes that the Babri building demolition was a spontaneous response of Hindus, he said.
“The party neither took any credit for it, nor does it seek it now,” he said, together with that spiritual leaders had started the Ayodhya movement.
Following Patil’s remarks, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray had demanded that Chief Minister Shinde, himself a Shiv Sena worker, each step down himself or ask Patil to resign.
Bal Thackeray had usually been quoted as saying that he was proud if any of his social gathering workers have been involved inside the demolition of the mosque.
MUMBAI: Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar on Wednesday said it would have been greater had his social gathering colleague and Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil not made his remark regarding the perform of Shiv Sena workers inside the Babri Masjid demolition.
Patil’s assertion that not a single Sena worker was present when the Babri mosque in Ayodhya was demolished in 1992 has put the Bharatiya Janata Party in a spot, as it is a companion of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena inside the Maharashtra authorities.
Shelar’s response obtained right here after he met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi.googletag.cmd.push(carry out() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“Patil made those comments in personal capacity. Perhaps it would have been better had he not made those comments,” he knowledgeable reporters.
“All were working to bring together various communities and groups. Balasaheb’s (late Sena founder Bal Thackeray) role in it (Ram Janmabhoomi movement) was helpful and supportive. We have welcomed it, respected it and honoured his (Bal Thackeray’s) views in this movement,” he said.
“I want to ask Uddhav ji (Uddhav Thackeray) what was his role in the whole (Babri Masjid demolition) operation,” Shelar, a former Maharashtra minister, extra said.
The BJP believes that the Babri building demolition was a spontaneous response of Hindus, he said.
“The party neither took any credit for it, nor does it seek it now,” he said, together with that spiritual leaders had started the Ayodhya movement.
Following Patil’s remarks, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray had demanded that Chief Minister Shinde, himself a Shiv Sena worker, each step down himself or ask Patil to resign.
Bal Thackeray had usually been quoted as saying that he was proud if any of his social gathering workers have been involved inside the demolition of the mosque.
