New Delhi: Amid strains within the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi alliance over Rahul Gandhi’s strident criticism of Veer Savarkar, NCP chief Sharad Pawar has stepped in to play the peacemaker by conveying Shiv Sena’s considerations on the problem to the Congress management. Opposition leaders stated Congress has agreed to tone down its criticism of Savarkar, which has led to unease within the NCP and the Shiv Sena (UBT), its alliance companions in Maharashtra.
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Sanjay Raut stated he had raised the Savarkar challenge in his talks with Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi and MVA companions are on the identical web page on this matter.
“MVA alliance is intact. If anyone thinks the MVA will break apart, they are wrong,” Raut informed reporters right here.
Gandhi is learnt to have assured Raut he would keep away from any crucial reference to Savarkar.
Pawar raised the problem throughout a gathering of opposition leaders convened by Kharge on Monday and made it clear that concentrating on Savarkar, a revered determine in Maharashtra, wouldn’t assist MVA, two leaders who attended the assembly informed PTI.
Former Congress presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi had been current on the assembly.
“Almost all opposition leaders were of the view that there was no need to rake up the Savarkar issue. We have to decide whether we have to fight Modi or Savarkar and not create confusion,” Raut stated after a gathering of parliamentarians owing allegiance to the Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena.
Pawar additionally informed Rahul Gandhi that Savarkar was by no means a member of the RSS and underscored that the actual battle of the opposition events was with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP.
Opposition leaders stated Rahul informed the assembly that the Savarkar challenge was an ideological place.
Leaders of Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party, Aam Aadmi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal, and Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi additionally reached out to the Thackeray faction Shiv Sena.
As the BJP stepped up its assault on Rahul Gandhi and sought his apology for “maligning” India on his current go to to the UK, the previous Lok Sabha member from Wayanad stated at a press convention on Saturday that he was not Savarkar and wouldn’t apologise.
Former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray slammed Rahul Gandhi for his assault on Savarkar and stated his outfit won’t tolerate any insult of the liberty fighter.
The Thackeray faction had skipped the assembly convened by Kharge as a mark of protest in opposition to Gandhi’s remarks concentrating on Savarkar.
