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โ€œVulturesโ€: Uddhav Thackeray Blasts BJP, Accuses It Of Wanting To Sell Mumbai

Mumbai: Shiva Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray, now coming to terms with the recent rebellion in the party by Eknath Shinde and others, launched an all-out attack on Wednesday against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the rebel Shinde fraction. Thackeray, without taking any names, called the BJPโ€™s leaders โ€œvulturesโ€ wanting a bite of Mumbai.

In an address to party office-bearers ahead of the important BMC elections, the Sena chief accused the BJP of selling Mumbaiand challenged Union home minister Amit Shah to try every tactic to beat the ruling party in the civic body.

Speaking at a massive rally at NESCO, Goregaon, Uddhav Thackeray dared the BJPโ€™s strategists to try to divide people on the lines of community and religion. โ€œPeople from all walks of life, community and religion, especially Muslims are with us. If you have guts, tell your cronies here to take BMC and Assembly elections together in one month to see who the city voters prefer.โ€

Accusing the BJP of behaving like โ€œvulturesโ€, Thackeray said: โ€œThe vultures are roaming around the city. They want a bite of the city; they want to swallow it. This isnโ€™t new, it has been happening for years.โ€

Thackeray, meanwhile, reminded the contribution of his grandfather in the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement, said several people have laid down their lives to keep Mumbai with Maharashtra.

โ€œMany Shahs have attacked this country. There is one from the same family who has asked his party workers to ground the Sena. But he doesnโ€™t know that the grass here is also like a sword. If you come marching at us, we will send you to the skies,โ€ the Sena supremo said, in a direct attack against Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

Frequently referring the Shinde fraction as โ€˜Mindhe Groupโ€™ (under obligation) in his speech, Thackeray said he will cut through them at the โ€œDussehra rally which will happen at Shivaji Park at any costโ€. Thackeray gave a clear message to party cadre to move ahead with the preparations of the rally at iconic Shivaji park even if they are denied permission to use it for the partyโ€™s annual rally on October 5.

The BJP always treated Mumbai as land parcel that can be sold, Thackeray alleged, adding: โ€œBut for us, it is our motherland. There are some children [Shinde group] who are out to sell the mother. They should understand that any such attempt will make us cut open their guts [in politics].โ€

โ€œSadly, we had an alliance with them and gave them everything though they did nothing substantial. I would repeat here that we rotted for 25 years in the alliance,โ€ the formed CM said, while appealing to party workers to take his governmentsโ€”state and in the BMCโ€”to every doorstep, as he did not advertise his work like the BJP did with bringing Cheetahs to India.

 

 

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