Maharashtra Political Crisis | Party Doors Shut For Rebel MLAs Having ‘Monstrous Ambitions’: Aaditya Thackeray

Thackeray categorically stated that doors of Maharashtra and the party are closed for the rebels Shiv Sena MLAs.

Shiv Sena leader and Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray. (File Photo: ANI)

New Delhi: Launching a vitriolic attack on the dissident Shiv Sena MLAs for having “monstrous ambitions”, Maharashtra Environment, Tourism and Protocol Minister Aaditya Thackeray on Sunday said the victory will always be of the party even if all the legislators turn rebels. “When these MLAs come to the state assembly, they should have the guts to see in our eyes and tell us what we have not done for them. The ambitions of these people are monstrous,” news agency Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted the 30-year-old son of Shiv Sena president and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray as saying.

Thackeray categorically stated that doors of Maharashtra and the party are closed for the rebels Shiv Sena MLAs.

“Contest elections again, we will ensure you are defeated,” he added while addressing the Shiv Sena workers in Mumbai for the second consecutive day.

The Maharashtra minister also trained his guns on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the ongoing political turmoil in the Shiv Sena and alleged the rebels were taken to Guwahati as “prisoners”.

Thackeray, without naming the BJP, said he felt ashamed that a party, which is in power at the Centre and Assam, have taken the MLAs from another ruling party from a different state and kept them in the north eastern state that is reeling under floods.

Thackeray said sufficient development funds had been provided to all the legislators and added that the Shiv Sena has become the voice of the common people.

The Maharashtra minister further said “there was a lot of respect” for Eknath Shinde in the Shiv Sena.

“Only in May he had been asked whether he wants to become the chief minister...I pity him, I am not angry. He could have rebelled in Thane or Mumbai and spelled out his ambitions instead of running away to Surat and then to Guwahati,” he added.

Earlier on Saturday, the Maharashtra legislature secretariat had issued summons to 16 of the rebel Shiv Sena MLAs, including Shinde, seeking written replies by the evening of June 27 to the complaints seeking their disqualification.