From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena chief and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday accused the BJP of engineering “splits” in other parties during his Vidarbha region’s tour to assert that it was doing so since it was not confident of winning the elections on its own.
He also accused the BJP-led Centre raising bogey of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) ahead of the polls to divert the attention of the people for electoral gains.
Addressing Shiv Sena (UBT) workers in Amravati on the second day of his Vidarbha tour, Thackeray asked the BJP why it needed to “split” other parties when it claimed to have the “number one prime minister in world”.
“You are stealing the Shiv Sena, you have also stolen the NCP and you will steal some other tomorrow. You sell off what belongs to the country and rob what belongs to others,” he alleged.
“You are trying to finish us off in politics, this is your Hindutva. We were with you for 25 to 30 years and now you are planning to finish off the Shiv Sena which was with you when you were zero,” he said hitting out at its former saffron ally.
“Balasaheb Thackeray saved you, otherwise (former prime minister) Atal Behari Vajpayee had then thrown you in the dustbin. If Balasaheb Thackeray had not stood behind the present prime minister, then would he have been the PM now? This you should ask yourself rather than asking others,” he said.
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