By PTI
MUMBAI: In a scathing assault on Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and different insurgent get together leaders, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday stated their popularity as “traitors” won’t ever go away.
Thackeray, who stepped down as chief minister in June following Shinde’s rebel, addressed the get together’s annual Dussehra rally on the iconic Shivaji Park even because the Shinde faction organized its personal rally elsewhere within the metropolis.
“The stamp of traitor (on the Shinde faction) will never go away. As time changes, the face of Ravan also changes. Today, it is the traitors (who are Ravan),” he stated on the well-attended gathering.
When he was unwell and underwent a surgical procedure whereas being the chief minister, he had delegated duty to Shinde, then a senior minister, Thackeray stated.
“But he conspired in opposition to me pondering I’ll by no means get up on my ft once more,” Thackeray alleged.
Today’s Ravan was not recognized for a number of heads however for the variety of ”khoke” (bins), he stated, alluding to the alleged use of financial inducement or bins of money to carry down the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities led by him.
“If you feel I should not remain the Sena president, I will quit. There is a limit to the lust for power. After the act of treachery, he (Shinde) now wants the party, its symbol and also wants to be called party president,” Thackeray stated.
Shinde was now making an attempt to applicable Sena founder Bal Thackeray’s legacy as a result of he couldn’t get votes in his “own father’s name,” he stated.
He fashioned a post-poll alliance with Congress and Nationalist Congress Party in 2019 to show the BJP a lesson for going again on its previous assurance, Thackeray stated.
“I swear on my parents that it had been decided that BJP and Shiv Sena will share the chief minister’s post for two and a half years each,” he stated.
Shinde was among the many first to be sworn in as a minister together with Congress and NCP leaders, and “he had no problem then,” Thackeray stated, referring to Shinde’s declare that he rebelled as a result of he and his supporters didn’t approve of the brand new alliance.
He didn’t need classes from BJP on Hindutva, Thackeray stated.
“BJP leaders visited (then Pakistan prime minister) Nawaz Sharif on his birthday without invitation and bowed before (Mohammad Ali) Jinnah’s grave,” he stated.
Thackeray additionally accused the BJP, his former ally, of elevating the Hindutva situation to divert consideration from poverty, unemployment and inflation.
“RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale has shown BJP the mirror,” he stated, referring to Hosabale’s latest comment in regards to the challenges of unemployment and rising revenue inequality.
With the rupee plummeting in opposition to greenback, he invoked late BJP chief Sushma Swaraj’s assertion that when the worth of the rupee decreases, the nation’s standing additionally goes down.
Fighting to retain management of the get together based by his late father, Uddhav sought help and energy from the Sena cadres in entrance of him.
“Today I have nothing. But with your support Shiv Sena will rise again. I will make a Shiv Sena worker chief minister again. We have to defeat the traitors in every election,” he stated, forward of the byelection to Andheri East Assembly constituency and Mumbai civic polls.
ALSO READ: Uddhav Thackeray’s brother Jaidev shares stage with Maha CM Shinde at Dussehra rally
He additionally focused BJP chief Amit Shah, asking if Shah was the nation’s residence minister or the BJP’s “internal minister” who solely topples state governments.
Referring to Shah’s exhortation to BJP employees to point out the Sena `zameen’ (to rout it), Thackeray stated, “Even we want to see the zameen (land) of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir becoming part of our country.”
The Shinde authorities was about to finish 100 days in workplace however most of this time was spent in Delhi, he stated, in a dig at Shinde’s visits to the nationwide capital. For the Shiv Sena, Hindutva meant nationalism, stated Thackeray.
All nationalist Indians needs to be cautious of the BJP’s goal to complete off all different political events, he added.
“RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat recently visited a mosque. Has he (then) given up Hindutva?” the Sena chief stated, in response to the BJP’s barbs that he discarded Hindutva by becoming a member of arms with the NCP and Congress.
Thackeray referred to Bhagwat’s speech on gender equality and highlighted the Ankita Bhandari homicide case in Uttarakhand and the discharge and alleged felicitation of convicts within the Bilkis Bano case in Gujarat. Was this girls empowerment, Thackeray requested.
“When we were with the BJP, the government never fulfilled Balasaheb Thackeray’s vision of naming Aurangabad and Osmanabad as Sambhaji Nagar and Dharashiv. As chief minister I took the decision to rename them with full support of MVA allies,” he stated.
Earlier, when Thackeray arrived on stage with the phrase `Eknishth” (loyal) within the background, he knelt down earlier than the gathering.
The 61-year-old chief wanted the assistance of his aides to kneel.
“I don’t have the doctors’ permission to bow yet. But I can’t proceed before bowing to you,” he stated in the beginning of his 30-minute speech.
MUMBAI: In a scathing assault on Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and different insurgent get together leaders, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday stated their popularity as “traitors” won’t ever go away.
Thackeray, who stepped down as chief minister in June following Shinde’s rebel, addressed the get together’s annual Dussehra rally on the iconic Shivaji Park even because the Shinde faction organized its personal rally elsewhere within the metropolis.
“The stamp of traitor (on the Shinde faction) will never go away. As time changes, the face of Ravan also changes. Today, it is the traitors (who are Ravan),” he stated on the well-attended gathering.
When he was unwell and underwent a surgical procedure whereas being the chief minister, he had delegated duty to Shinde, then a senior minister, Thackeray stated.
“But he conspired in opposition to me pondering I’ll by no means get up on my ft once more,” Thackeray alleged.
Today’s Ravan was not recognized for a number of heads however for the variety of ”khoke” (bins), he stated, alluding to the alleged use of financial inducement or bins of money to carry down the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities led by him.
“If you feel I should not remain the Sena president, I will quit. There is a limit to the lust for power. After the act of treachery, he (Shinde) now wants the party, its symbol and also wants to be called party president,” Thackeray stated.
Shinde was now making an attempt to applicable Sena founder Bal Thackeray’s legacy as a result of he couldn’t get votes in his “own father’s name,” he stated.
He fashioned a post-poll alliance with Congress and Nationalist Congress Party in 2019 to show the BJP a lesson for going again on its previous assurance, Thackeray stated.
“I swear on my parents that it had been decided that BJP and Shiv Sena will share the chief minister’s post for two and a half years each,” he stated.
Shinde was among the many first to be sworn in as a minister together with Congress and NCP leaders, and “he had no problem then,” Thackeray stated, referring to Shinde’s declare that he rebelled as a result of he and his supporters didn’t approve of the brand new alliance.
He didn’t need classes from BJP on Hindutva, Thackeray stated.
“BJP leaders visited (then Pakistan prime minister) Nawaz Sharif on his birthday without invitation and bowed before (Mohammad Ali) Jinnah’s grave,” he stated.
Thackeray additionally accused the BJP, his former ally, of elevating the Hindutva situation to divert consideration from poverty, unemployment and inflation.
“RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale has shown BJP the mirror,” he stated, referring to Hosabale’s latest comment in regards to the challenges of unemployment and rising revenue inequality.
With the rupee plummeting in opposition to greenback, he invoked late BJP chief Sushma Swaraj’s assertion that when the worth of the rupee decreases, the nation’s standing additionally goes down.
Fighting to retain management of the get together based by his late father, Uddhav sought help and energy from the Sena cadres in entrance of him.
“Today I have nothing. But with your support Shiv Sena will rise again. I will make a Shiv Sena worker chief minister again. We have to defeat the traitors in every election,” he stated, forward of the byelection to Andheri East Assembly constituency and Mumbai civic polls.
ALSO READ: Uddhav Thackeray’s brother Jaidev shares stage with Maha CM Shinde at Dussehra rally
He additionally focused BJP chief Amit Shah, asking if Shah was the nation’s residence minister or the BJP’s “internal minister” who solely topples state governments.
Referring to Shah’s exhortation to BJP employees to point out the Sena `zameen’ (to rout it), Thackeray stated, “Even we want to see the zameen (land) of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir becoming part of our country.”
The Shinde authorities was about to finish 100 days in workplace however most of this time was spent in Delhi, he stated, in a dig at Shinde’s visits to the nationwide capital. For the Shiv Sena, Hindutva meant nationalism, stated Thackeray.
All nationalist Indians needs to be cautious of the BJP’s goal to complete off all different political events, he added.
“RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat recently visited a mosque. Has he (then) given up Hindutva?” the Sena chief stated, in response to the BJP’s barbs that he discarded Hindutva by becoming a member of arms with the NCP and Congress.
Thackeray referred to Bhagwat’s speech on gender equality and highlighted the Ankita Bhandari homicide case in Uttarakhand and the discharge and alleged felicitation of convicts within the Bilkis Bano case in Gujarat. Was this girls empowerment, Thackeray requested.
“When we were with the BJP, the government never fulfilled Balasaheb Thackeray’s vision of naming Aurangabad and Osmanabad as Sambhaji Nagar and Dharashiv. As chief minister I took the decision to rename them with full support of MVA allies,” he stated.
Earlier, when Thackeray arrived on stage with the phrase `Eknishth” (loyal) within the background, he knelt down earlier than the gathering.
The 61-year-old chief wanted the assistance of his aides to kneel.
“I don’t have the doctors’ permission to bow yet. But I can’t proceed before bowing to you,” he stated in the beginning of his 30-minute speech.