New Delhi: Former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday challenged Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to defeat it in the upcoming Mumbai civic polls, as reported by news agency PTI. He said, "Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asked his party to show the Shiv Sena its place in the Mumbai civic polls. I dare you to try it. Shiv Sena's relationship with the city was unbreakable and the party was deeply connected with the day-to-day life of ordinary Mumbaikars, rushing to their help whenever required."
He has also launched a scathing attack on BJP and said that the party is lying about the Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor plant and Centre is giving huge incentives to the project after it was moved to Gujarat, as reported by news agency PTI.
The power tussle between the Uddhav Thackeray group and chief minister Eknath Shinde group is going on after the fall of power in the state.
Addressing party workers at suburban Goregaon, Uddhav said, "Mumbai is the financial capital of the country and you are trying to take out these industries and taking it to your state. Now Vedanta has gone, they have been continuously lying. You should be ashamed. Its gone, I will come with you, let's try to bring it back," as reported by NDTV.
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Hitting out at the BJP for targetting him on dynastic politics, the former Chief Minister said, "I am proud of my family who took part in the Sanyukta (united) Maharashtra movement."
"If saving lives is corruption, we have done it," he said, referring to BJP's allegations of corruption during the pandemic when the Shiv Sena-led ruling coalition was at the helm in the state.
Meanwhile, Industrialist Gautam Adani met former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray today. "The meeting took place today," an official said but declined to elaborate on what transpired between the Adani Group chairman and the Shiv Sena president, as reported by PTI.
(With PTI Inputs)