New Delhi: Dissident Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday (March 5, 2023) once again hit out at the Election Commission for allotting the party’s name and symbol to the rebel faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. dubbed “the one”. Slaves of those in power. Thackeray termed the Election Commission as ‘lime attachment’ commission Shinde after losing the party’s name and election symbol “bow and arrow” and said the election body could never take away the party founded by his father, the late Bal Thackeray, from him.
“You (Election Commission) have taken away the party’s name and symbol from us, but you cannot take away the Shiv Sena from me,” Uddhav said during a public meeting at Khed in Ratnagiri district.
He also said that it was Bal Thackeray who stood by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) when he was a political “untouchable”, and urged the former ally to seek votes only in the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi without naming Thackeray senior. Challenged.
Thackeray also said that he “did not accept” the decision of the Election Commission.
“If the Election Commission is not suffering from cataract, then it should come and see the ground situation. The Election Commission is a ‘chuna lagao’ commission and a slave of those in power. The principle on which the Election Commission took this decision is wrong. ” He repeated.
He said that the party has appealed in the Supreme Court.
BJP trying to destroy Shiv Sena
Uddhav Thackeray said the BJP is trying to “finish off” the Shiv Sena ruthlessly and brutally but will not succeed. He said the move to destroy the Shiv Sena was tantamount to an attack on the unity of Marathi people as well as Hindus.
He said that earlier sages and saints used to be a part of BJP but now the party is full of opportunists.
He alleged, “The largest number of corrupt people are in the BJP. First they (BJP) accuse the people of the opposition of corruption.
“People will have to decide whether they want me or Eknath Shinde. I will accept people’s decision, but not the Election Commission’s. If people say they don’t want me, I will leave as I did” ‘Varsha’ was left.” The official residence of the Chief Minister of Maharashtra after resigning from the post”), Uddhav said.
Party chief Hon. Mister. Uddhavji Balasaheb Thackeray’s public meeting Shivgarjan | Village, Ratnagiri – Live
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Hitting out at the BJP, he said that just as Eknath Shinde “stole” my (Uddhav Thackeray’s) father, the BJP “stole” Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Subhash Chandra Bose because that party had no one to trust. There is no symbol for it.
“When you see someone with a bow and arrow, he is a thief. Will you vote for him (a reference to Shinde)?” he asked the gathering.
He appealed to his Shiv Sainiks to bite the dust of the BJP in the Maharashtra elections.