BJP used us as a ladder to climb in Maharashtra: Shiv Sena

A day after Union Home Minister Amit Shahs verbal assault on Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray the Shiv Sena on Monday hit back charging the Bharatiya Janata Party of using its exally as a ladder to ascend in state politicsAt a function in Sindhudurg on Sunday Shah had virtually labelled Thackeray a liar saying the BJP had never assured the Maharashtra CMs post by rotation to the Sena after the October 2019 Assembly electionsCountering this Senas Mumbai South MP Arvind Sawant on Monday referred to a meeting of BJPSena leaders held at Matoshri in February 2019 followed by a press conferenceAt that time then BJP Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis now Leader of Opposition had announced the seatshring arrangement for the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections with equal powersharing formulaThen why did it take him Shah over a year to speak up on this Sawant asked pointedly to the then BJP president Shah who now referred to the 3party alliance as an autorickshaw governmentShah had even accused Thackeray of junking the late Balasaheb Thackerays principles and ideologies in his greed for power by entering into an alliance with Nationalist Congress PartyCongress and becoming the CMTo this the Senas chief spokesperson Sanjay Raut added in mock sympathy that the wounds run deep in the BJP which is still in a shock how though it ruled over so many states it failed to capture power in MaharashtraShah added sarcastically that if the BJP had tread on Senas path its Senas existence would have been erased permanently in the stateRaut replied to this in a tweet In 1975 Rajni Patel and in the 1990s similarly Murli Deora said that Shiv Sena will be wiped off Again in 2012 Prithviraj Chavan said the same thing and on all the occasions the Shiv Sena came up even stronger than earlierSawant added that all those people who had cursed the Shiv Sena have come and gone But five generations of Thackeray family has worked for the people of MaharashtraHe said all the people know that the BJP had only used Shiv Sena as a ladder to grow in the state politics with the late Balasaheb Thackerays blessingsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever