Uddhav Thackeray flays BJP, RSS for ‘satta jihad,’ says they need power at any cost

Stating that helium respects the RSS and Bhagwat, but not the organisation’s actions, Thackeray criticised the BJP for admitting governmental leaders from assorted parties. “The BJP contiguous is antithetic from what it was during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s era. It had purity backmost then, but today’s BJP is ‘hybrid,’ having absorbed leaders from different parties. They should beryllium ashamed of calling themselves the Bharatiya Janata Party, arsenic it is neither genuinely Bharatiya nor a enactment for the Janata,” helium said.

Thackeray likened the BJP to the Kauravas, accusing it of arrogance and asserting that the enactment was infested with ‘pests.’ Without straight naming Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and NCP person Ajit Pawar, helium said, “As crops are infested with pests, truthful excessively is the BJP with Shinde and Pawar. I consciousness atrocious for the BJP that our aged person is infested with specified pests. They are indulging successful satta jihad, they request powerfulness astatine immoderate cost.”

In his much than 40-minute speech, Thackeray reiterated his committedness to the radical of Maharashtra and promised to scrap the Dharavi Redevelopment Project if the Maha Vikas Aghadi returned to power. “The authorities has issued 1,600 resolutions successful 11 days. In 2 months, we volition travel to powerfulness and cancel astir of these decisions. We volition enactment officials successful jailhouse if we find immoderate irregularities. They are looting Mumbai nether the guise of Dharavi redevelopment. When we travel to power, we volition supply lodging for constabulary and different authorities unit successful Dharavi. If immoderate tender conditions for the redevelopment task are flouted, I denote contiguous that we volition scrap the tender awarded to Adani. Adani is not my enemy, but if helium is going to loot Mumbai, we volition not let it,” helium asserted.

Thackeray besides urged Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud to present a “right decision” successful the ongoing Sena versus Sena lawsuit successful the Supreme Court. “I privation to archer the CJI that if you privation to marque history, past springiness the close decision. If you don’t, radical volition suffer religion successful the judiciary. People judge lone successful the judiciary and democracy,” helium remarked.

Promising to physique a temple of Shivaji Maharaj successful each district, Thackeray criticised Modi for utilizing Shivaji arsenic a governmental tool. “Modiji, it’s not an EVM machine, Shivaji Maharaj is our idol. I committedness today, erstwhile we instrumentality to power, we volition physique a temple of Shivaji Maharaj successful each district—not conscionable successful Maharashtra, but successful each authorities of the country,” helium said.