A radical change has taken place in the Shiv Sena, said Aaditya Thackeray. (File)
Thane:
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray said on Saturday there has been a “radical change” in his party, which was once known for its aggressive “sons-of-the-bottom” policy. The former Maharashtra minister was speaking at a job fair organized by the Shiv Sena faction led by his father Uddhav Thackeray in Thane.
“There has been a radical change in the Shiv Sena launching agitations for the rights of the sons of the soil…now we are organizing job fairs to address the problems of the sons of the soil, especially the youth,” said the 32 year old MLA from Worli.
A new and stronger Shiv Sena was in the making as young people became part of it, the scion of the Thackeray family added. The coalition government of the BJP and Eknath Shinde-led Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena has done nothing for Maharashtra but divide people, Aaditya Thackeray said.
This “government of gaddars” (traitors) will collapse in the next two months, he claimed.
Notably, Thane is home to Prime Minister Eknath Shinde, whose rebellion led to the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government in June 2022. Mr. Shinde subsequently joined the BJP to form the government.
Out of 55 Sena MLAs, 40 are with the Shinde camp, while 12 of the party’s 18 MPs have left the Uddhav Thackeray faction.
“Those who left us are ‘gaddar’ and those who stayed with us are the real Shiv Sainiks,” Aaditya said.
Instead of focusing on unemployment and the disappearance of industries from the state, the government is busy settling political scores, he said, challenging it to hold civil elections in Maharashtra.
The opposition had last year blamed the Shinde government for Maharashtra’s loss of two mega-industrial projects – the Vedanta-Foxconn and Tata-Airbus – to Gujarat.
Even after two sessions of the legislature, not a single woman has been admitted to the Shinde cabinet, Aaditya Thackeray went on to say.
He also expressed confidence that local MP Rajan Vichare, who is part of Sena (UBT), will win the Lok Sabha elections again in 2024.
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