‘Crackers Will Be Burst In China If BJP Wins Lok Sabha Polls’, Says Uddhav Thackeray
‘Crackers Will Be Burst In China If BJP Wins Lok Sabha Polls’, Says Uddhav Thackeray
M.U.H
06/05/202459
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said that he will not go back to the BJP, his former ally, even if the party opens the door for him as he accused the saffron party of toppling his government in 2022 through “treachery”.
Uddhav Thackeray, while addressing a rally at Alibaug in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, claimed if the BJP wins the Lok Sabha polls, crackers will be burst in India as well as in China as there will be a “timid” government in New Delhi as he blasted the BJP over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks that Pakistan was eager to make Congress MP Rahul Gandhi India’s next PM.
Thackeray said the BJP resorts to fearmongering using Pakistan’s name during polls.
On Saturday’s terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, Thackeray said the PM and Union Home Minister Amit Shah won’t go there but visit Maharashtra to destroy him.
“Even if the doors are open, do whatever you want. I will not come to you. And there will be no need to come back to you because you will not be there (in power),” Thackeray said, adding that his government was pulled down through “treachery” in 2022.
To recall, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government (comprising Congress, NCP, and Shiv Sena) in the state collapsed in June 2022 after Eknath Shinde-led a rebellion in the undivided Shiv Sena and joined hands with the BJP to become the chief minister.
Interestingly, PM Modi, in an interview with a news channel a few days back, had said that he would respect Uddhav Thackeray as Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray’s son and would be the first person to help him if he is in distress.
Thackeray said that had the BJP worked for 10 years, it would not have had to engineer splits, referring to the splitting up of the Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) apart from breaking a few top leaders of Maharashtra Congress.
He charged the BJP with harbouring hatred for Maharashtra as he said that despite giving over 40 MPs to the NDA in 2019, the state was betrayed as he accused the Centre of taking away big-ticket projects to Gujarat and imposing the “ecologically destructive” Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant project and a refinery project on the state.
Thackeray also alleged that the BJP wants to change the Constitution after getting a brute majority.
In the Raigad Lok Sabha constituency, which will vote on May 7, the ruling Mahayuti is backing Sunil Tatkare of Ajit Pawar-led NCP against Anant Geete of Sena (UBT).