Mumbai: The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) on Tuesday claimed 22 MLAs and 9 MPs from rival Shiv Sena had been feeling suffocated as a result of “step-motherly treatment” by the BJP and will stop the group led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
Latching on to Shiv Sena MP Gajanan Kirtikar’s comment that his social gathering was getting step-motherly remedy, an editorial in Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ dubbed the Shinde group MLAs and MPs as hens and cocks imprisoned within the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) coop and that it can’t be stated after they may very well be slaughtered.
It stated Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (then undivided) severed ties with the BJP (in 2019) as a result of identical “step-motherly treatment” which grew to become insufferable, and in addition for its security and self-respect.
The Thackeray-headed Shiv Sena exited the National (*22*) Alliance (NDA) in 2019 and joined arms with the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party to kind a authorities in Maharashtra. After the break up within the Sena final 12 months, Shinde joined arms with the BJP to develop into CM.
Kirtikar, the Lok Sabha member from Mumbai, on Friday, stated, “We are part of the NDA…So our work should be carried out accordingly, and (NDA) constituents should get a (suitable) status. We think we are being given step-motherly treatment.”
The editorial in Saamana on Tuesday stated stories are that the Shinde group’s “22 MLAs and nine MPs are feeling suffocated because of step-motherly treatment by the BJP and they have developed the mindset to quit the group.”
It stated the Shiv Sena MPs and MLAs “betrayed” the Thackerays and joined arms with the BJP, however inside a 12 months, their “love affair” has turned bitter and there are talks of their divorce. Kirtikar final week stated the Shiv Sena contested 22 Lok Sabha seats (out of a complete of 48) in Maharashtra in 2019 and this association with the BJP will proceed within the state even within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The editorial claimed the Shiv Sena has requested for contesting 22 seats within the Lok Sabha, however the BJP is not going to give it greater than 5 to seven seats. The Shiv Sena’s declare that it’s going to battle on 22 seats is laughable, the Marathi each day stated.
Targeting Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the editorial claimed he has develop into the “driver” of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, which implies all powers of the state authorities lie with the BJP chief.
