14 May,2024 07:24 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Aaditya Thackeray. File Pic
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday claimed that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance in Maharashtra will win maximum number of seats in the Lok Sabha elections 2024, reported the PTI.
Aaditya Thackeray also said that it will be among the top five states that will contribute when the INDIA bloc forms a government at the Centre.
Aaditya Thackeray also claimed that after the split in the Shiv Sena, the faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde had sent his party a message not to address them as "gaddar" (traitors), the PTI reported.
"But, then a gaddar is a gaddar," Aaditya Thackeray said.
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"MVA will win maximum seats and when the INDIA alliance forms the government, Maharashtra will figure in the first five states," Thackeray said at the ABP Majha Conclave.
Aaditya Thackeray parried a question on an alliance with the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), and claimed he never made personal attacks against anyone.
"We never gave unconditional support to the BJP. We only had one condition that he will safeguard the self-respect of Maharashtra at any cost," he said, the news agency reported on Tuesday.
MNS president Raj Thackeray has announced unconditional support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's bid for a third prime ministerial term.
No real issues to discuss so people are mudslinging, says Raj Thackeray
Meanwhile, MNS chief Raj Thackeray slammed political parties at a rally in Thane on Sunday and said that this is the first Lok Sabha election where I'm witnessing politicians targeting each other as there is no proper topic for discussion like before."
At the rally organised for Shiv Sena (Shinde) candidate of Kalyan Dr Shrikant Shinde and Thane candidate Naresh Mhaske, Raj slammed Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray and NCP SP chief Sharad Pawar.
"Now you are being accused of breaking your party. But you broke my party, you took my 6 corporators with the âkhoka'," Raj Thackeray said targeting Uddhav. "You come to power with parties who broke Shiv Sena in the past just because you wanted to be chief minister. You sit with Chhagan Bhujbal who arrests Balasaheb Thackeray. I never support party-breaking politics."
Talking about "taxpayers", Raj Thackeray said that the Thane district is experiencing the highest migration in the country and in the world. "Until this migration doesn't stop, the development of the district cannot be done. Marathi people have first rights in Maharashtra. But lots of other people are also living here, who are taxpayers. They are also ours. But they should learn Marathi first," Raj Thackeray said.
(with PTI inputs)
