File photo of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. File
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde took aim at Uddhav Thackeray and MVA at his rally in Khed in Ratnagiri district, on March 19, 2023.
At the rally, Mr. Shinde said тАЬYou [Mr.Thackeray] claim to be Bal ThackerayтАЩs heirs. You may the heirs to his property, but not of his ideals. We do not need his property, our true property is BalasahebтАЩs ideals. Even if Balasaheb (late Bal Thackeray) was your father, he was nothing less than a deity for ordinary Shiv Sainiks like us. Do not try to secure false sympathy.
тАЬAre you with with тАШtukde tukdeтАЩ gang [alluding to Congress] or with patriots [meaning BJP] who scrapped Article 370 in Kashmir. You [Uddhav] have thrown away BalasahebтАЩs ideals for the sake of power. You have allied with those who have supported the perpetrators of the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts…Uddhav ThackerayтАЩs vocabulary is limited: he only keeps accusing us [Shinde camp] of taking money and being traitors.тАЭ
The Shinde camp attempted to drive a wedge within opposition MVA by playing clips тАШexposingтАЩ Mr. ThackerayтАЩs previous comments against NCP chief Sharad Pawar and senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar, who are currently his allies in the MVA.
