Describing the present government in Maharashtra as “highly autocratic, highly dictatorial and opaque”, Yuva Sena president Aditya Thackeray on Tuesday said there is only one Shiv Sena and all others are “traitors”. “They (Eknath Shinde group) have tried to steal everything from us, they have tried to steal our party logo and party name. They are trying to do everything they can. But this The fact of the matter is: there’s someone who got away.” Interacting with students at the Hyderabad campus of GITAM (Deemed to be University) as a part of the Changemakers session moderated by Smita Sharma, she said, “Along with everything tagged only as a chor (thief) Can go, nothing further than that.” Visiting Faculty, Kautilya School of Public Policy.
“It is sad to see that Maharashtra – which was competing in the top five states in the time of Covid and was one of the top players in terms of investment, tourism, sustainability, urban development – is now lagging behind. During our time MVA govt, we saw zero incident of communal violence, everyone worked together, 6.5 lakh crore rupees investment was coming in the state, we had many MoUs for factories coming there. We have an unconstitutional government, which Setting aside the Constitution and running a government that is highly autocratic, highly dictatorial and opaque.”We are not one of the most attractive states for investment due to political instability,” said the Shiv Sena-UBT leader and MLA from Mumbai’s Worli.
He said, “At least few people in the past had the guts to call an emergency an emergency – today we are in an undeclared emergency. The complete silencing of any opposition and alternative voices is troublesome for the country.” Affirming his faith in the people and the judiciary, Thackeray reiterated that it is very important to see which debates we choose for ourselves. “Today we are having religion versus religion, region versus region – everything apart from the core issues in our country. Are we debating unemployment, inflation and the problems we face as citizens? We are not debating the right things. We are fighting for something that happened 50-60 years ago, for personalities from 100 years ago or whether a king/emperor did the right thing or not. But we are not fighting for the future. Our What will future generations think?”