After splitting with the BJP, Mr. Thackeray agreed to collaborate with ideologically opposite parties Nationalist Congress Party, and the Congress to form a government and keep the BJP from taking power.
Mumbai:Ā Uddhav Thackeray, addressed the citizens of Maharashtra for the first time since his exit as Maharashtra Chief Minister and took potshots today at the Bhartiya Janata Party, which has formed a new government with Shiv Sena rebel Eknath Shinde.
“BJP made so-called Shiv Sainik the Chief Minister,” Uddhav Thackeray said, a day after Eknath Shinde’s oath.
“Had Amit Shah kept his word given to me, there would have been a BJP chief minister in Maharashtra now,” he added.
“The BJP has backstabbed me for power. I had told Amit Shah earlier as well that there should be a Shiv Sena Chief Minister for 2.5 years (during the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance). Had they done this earlier, there would’ve been no Maha Vikas Aghadi,” said the Shiv Sena chief.
Mr. Thackeray was referring to the reason why he parted ways with Bhartiya Janata Party his party’s 25-year alliance partner after they won the Maharashtra assembly polls.
Mr. Thackeray had alleged the BJP, especially Union Home MinisterĀ Amit Shah, of reneging on a promise of a rotational chief ministership in which the two parties would split the five-year term equally.
After splitting with the BJP, Mr. Thackeray agreed to collaborate with ideologically opposite parties Nationalist Congress Party, and the Congress to form a government and keep the BJP from taking power.
Mr. Thackeray resigned on Wednesday after most of his Shiv Sena MLAs joined rebel Eknath Shinde, bringing down the Maha Vikas Agadi coalition government.
Eknath Shinde was sworn in yesterday, with former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis as his deputy. One of the first decisions he took was to reverse the Thackeray government’s decision to shift a controversial metro car shed project from Aarey, which is called the green lungs of Mumbai.
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