I have not renounced the ideology of Hindutva, but I do not accept the rotten form of BJP’s Hindutva… This is to say that Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray. Addressing a program in Nashik, Maharashtra on Wednesday, he said that he will not leave Hindutva till death. During this, he targeted the BJP fiercely.
In the program, Uddhav said that he has not sacrificed the ideology of Hindutva, but his former partner Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP )’s rotten version of Hindutva is not acceptable to him. During this, he also demanded that the BJP-Congress government of the state should convert the Raj Bhavan complex in Mumbai to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and shift the Governor’s residence to some other place.
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‘I treated everyone equally…’
Addressing the party workers, he attacked the BJP and said that Bijpi spread a false story among the people that the Shiv Sena had abandoned Hindutva. Thackeray said that Muslims supported his party Shiv Sena (UBT) simply because as Chief Minister he treated everyone equally and worked for the development of all, no discrimination against anyone.
‘Mumbai is being looted…’
Uddhav Thackeray, who separated from the BJP in 2019, also said that without undivided Shiv Sena, the current ruling party of the Center and the state could not reach the situation that a Ram temple could be built in Ayodhya. He said that he cannot accept the tampering being done by BJP in the form of Hindutva. Thackeray said that he has separated the way from the BJP, but he will not leave Hindutva till death. At the same time, he alleged that Mumbai is being looted, everything is being taken to Gujarat.