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โ€˜Uddhav was ready for alliance with BJPโ€™, Claims Shinde Camp MLA

uddhav thackeray ready to ally with BJP Claims Shinde MLA
Eknath Shindeโ€™s rebellion last month had led to the fall of the Uddhav Thackeray government triggering a split within the Shiv Sena.

Mumbai: For more than a month after Uddhav Thackerayโ€™s government was overthrown in Maharashtra, there are still ongoing claims and counterclaims about the change of position, deliberations and discussions that took place weeks ago as the state awaits a new cabinet, now an MLA of the Team Eknath Shinde said Uddhav Thackeray was ready to reconsider ties with the BJP.

โ€œWhen I left for Assam (Guwahati after the uprising of 21 June), I contacted one of the people involved in these talks (between Thackeray and BJP). I sent him to meet Uddhav Saheb. He was told that we forget what happened and that it is time to be together. Even then, Uddhav Saheb said, โ€˜You (the BJP) remove  Shinde and we are ready for an alliance,โ€ Deepak Kesarkar told the PTI on Friday. However, Kesarkar added that the proposal was not acceptable to MLAs. โ€œThis was not acceptable to the BJP or the MLAs. Because it would have been inappropriate. The rest is history,โ€ he stressed.

The Shiv Sena MLAs who had joined the Shinde had traveled from Surat in Gujarat to Guwahati of Assam and then to Goa. Their strength grew, eventually leading to the collapse of Uddhav Thackerayโ€™s government.

Kesarkar also reportedly asked Uddhav to give his blessings to successor Shinde for โ€œthe BJP and Shiv Sena share similar ideologies.โ€

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Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi hit out at the center after BJP MP Nishikant Dubey said the government must be congratulated for providing free rations to people.

Mumbai: In the latest search of his own party, BJP MP Varun Gandhi countered Prime Minister Narendra Modiโ€™s โ€œRevdiโ€ jibe at the opposition.

The Pilibhit MP hit out at the center after a BJP MP told parliament that the government should be commended for giving people free rations. Comparing this to the huge amount of  debts written off over the past five years, Mr. Gandhi tweeted in Hindi: โ€˜House expects โ€˜thank youโ€™ for providing 5kg rations to the poor, says also that the loans worth 10 lakh Millions have been written off in the last five years.โ€

โ€œThe names of Mehul Choksi and Rishi Agarwal top the list of โ€˜free Revdiโ€˜. Who has the first right to state funds?โ€ he added. His post accompanied data submitted by Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat K. Karad.

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey recently said in Lok Sabha that Narendra Modiโ€™s government should be congratulated for providing free rations to 80 million people.

Prime Minister Modi sparked an uproar last month when he warned people about โ€œRevdi cultureโ€ โ€“ โ€œRevdiโ€ refers to a candy  among which votes from promising giveaways are sought. In a demonstration after the opening of a highway in Uttar Pradesh, he said the tendency of political parties to seek votes over promises of free gifts could be dangerous for the country.

The BJP has long attracted the friendly fire of Varun Gandhi. It recently targeted the party government in Uttar Pradesh on charges of leaking interrogative documents during a government recruitment campaign.

He also criticized the governmentโ€™s decision to cancel the railway concession for the elderly, the introduction of GST on packaged food products and the new recruitment program of the center for the armed forces, โ€œAgnipathโ€.

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