Replying to the opposition’s ‘Final Week Movement’ within the legislative council, Shinde stated, with out naming Thackeray, that Fadnavis made “40-50 calls” after the alliance of the undivided Shiv Sena and BJP retained its majority within the 2019 meeting elections. However there was no response from Thackeray.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday launched a pointy assault on Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, accusing him of betraying the-then ally and BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis following the 2019 meeting elections. Talking through the Opposition’s “Final Week Movement” within the legislative council, Shinde recalled the occasions post-election when the undivided Shiv Sena-BJP alliance had secured a majority.
With out immediately naming Thackeray, Shinde claimed that after the outcomes, Fadnavis made “40 to 50 calls” to achieve out, hoping to maneuver ahead with authorities formation. Nonetheless, there was no response from the opposite facet, he alleged. Shinde’s remarks come because the political rift between the previous allies continues to dominate discourse in Maharashtra politics, with each camps usually buying and selling barbs over their 2019 fallout.
‘Modified colors like a chameleon’
“Maharashtra has by no means seen a chameleon altering colors so quick. He went with these whom he as soon as thought-about lowly,” Shinde stated in an obvious reference to Thackeray becoming a member of fingers with the Congress after severing the alliance with the BJP. It was due to his (Shinde’s) request that Fadnavis had agreed to cede the put up of Mumbai’s mayor to the Shiv Sena in 2017 after the Sena gained 84 seats and the BJP 82 within the civic polls, Shinde stated. “However he (Thackeray) betrayed Fadnavis in 2019 (by strolling out of the alliance),” Shinde added.
Backroom talks throughout Guwahati revolt
Shinde additionally claimed that whereas he and insurgent Sena MLAs supporting him had been tenting in Guwahati in 2022 after rebelling in opposition to Thackeray, the latter approached him for reconciliation, and on the similar time instructed the BJP management in Delhi to not help the insurgent group. Shinde stated the Thackeray authorities had introduced beginning a music faculty within the title of Lata Mangeshkar after the singing legend’s demise.
Lata Mangeshkar faculty controversy
However when the Mangeshkar household awarded the primary Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Thackeray acquired so upset that he determined in opposition to beginning the music faculty, Shinde claimed. When he grew to become chief minister in 2022, he began the music faculty, Shinde added. Notably, Shinde’s reminder of Thackeray ‘betraying’ Fadnavis and the BJP in 2019 got here a day after the Shiv Sena (UBT) chief met the Maharashtra Chief Minister. A day earlier, Fadnavis, in a tongue-in-cheek comment within the Home, had requested Thackeray to come back over to the ruling facet.
(With inputs from PTI)