JALGAON: In a robust, no-holds-barred assault, Shiv Sena-UBT President Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday stated that ruling Bharatiya Janata Party “doesn`t know what is Hindutva”. “Hindutva is not a matter of selfishness, but a nationalist. The BJP doesn`t understand what Hindutva is. Their Hindutva is centred around cow and gomutra (cow-urine). Cow slaughter is banned in one state but not in others… This is their Hindutva,” stated Thackeray, because the BJP fights the Karnataka elections on its pet-theme.
Addressing an enormous rally in Pachora, Jalgaon this night, Thackeray denied the cost that he had left Hindutva, saying that after he took the oath as Chief Minister in November 2019, all religions had been handled equally. “I have gone with the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)… I have not left Hindutva and will never leave it… show me one instance which made you feel that I had discarded Hindutva,” he requested.
Targetting the BJP, he stated that “crushing other people and parties” with the help of central investigating companies or letting free goons to assault ladies leaders of opposing political events “is not our Hindutva”. “People ask me – is the BJP a challenge before us? I say the BJP is not a challenge. The real challenge before us is how shall we undo the damage that the BJP is inflicting on the country,” he asserted.
He questioned “how is it possible that all corrupt people who join your party (BJP) suddenly become clean”, and stated that the BJP hounds anyone opposing or daring them. Training weapons on the Shiv Sena of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Thackeray stated that “seeing this massive gathering, even Pakistan would have said which is the real Shiv Sena… only the Modi-appointed Election Commission of India (ECI) could not realise it”.
“Some traitors and thieves (Shinde) believed that they are the Shiv Sena. Arre hatt..! Look at this sea of humanity…Your throng will burn down soon… There were natural disasters and even coronavirus in Maharashtra which we tackled effectively, but now this government itself is a calamity for the state,” declared Thackeray amid loud cheers and applause.
He reiterated that the BJP should declare now whether or not they going to struggle the following elections below Shinde`s management, and if not then whether or not the stories are true, that each one 48 Lok Sabha seats shall be contested by solely the BJP. “The stole the party, they took away the bow and arrow symbol and are trying to steal my father (the late Balasaheb Thackeray). Those who have nothing resort to thieving like this… First you (the voters) elected and put them on the horse, now they deserve to be yanked off their high horse,” thundered Thackeray.
He lauded former Jammu & Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik`s statements on corruption and the Pulwama assaults and the way he was requested to maintain shut within the matter by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was within the Corbett National Park at the moment. Thackeray additionally heaped praises on a number of “brave, mardana Shiv Sainiks” like Sanjay Raut, Rajan Salvi, Nitin Deshmukh and others for not succumbing to the BJP`s pressures by the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax or Central Bureau of Investigation and selected to stay with him, and even hung out in jail.
The Sena-UBT chief threw the gauntlet on the ruling Shiv Sena saying he shall be addressing extra such rallies everywhere in the state, plus joint public conferences of the MVA. “You can come with Modi and your stolen bow and arrow. I will confront you with my name… Hold the elections now… we are ready to fight and burn your throne with our flaming torch,” warned Thackeray.
The mammoth rally which acquired underway round nightfall was addressed by different leaders like Leader of Opposition within the Council Ambadas Danve, MP Arvind Sawant, Deputy Leader Sushma Andhare, Vaishali Patil and others.
