Don't teach us Hindutva, why no Bharat Ratna for Savarkar yet: Uddhav to BJP

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday slammed the BJP over issues ranging from the commitment to Hindutva to the ongoing farmers agitation on Delhi bordersAsking why the Union government has not conferred Bharat Ratna on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar the Hindutva ideologue Thackeray said in the Assembly that the BJP should not teach Hindutva to its former ally the Shiv SenaLetters were sent to the Centre twice seeking Bharat Ratna for Savarkar Who confers Bharat Ratna It is the right of the prime minister and a committee Thackeray saidThe BJP has been targeting the Shiv Sena chief for giving up his Hindutva ideology for sharing power with the NCP and Congress Among other things it has questioned the delay in renaming Aurangabad in central Maharashtra named after the Mughal emperor as SambhajinagarYou dont give Bharat Ratna to Savarkar and you preach us about renaming the chief minister said adding that Aurangabad will definitely be renamedHe asked the opposition party who created roadblocks in Maharashtras proposal to rename the Aurangabad airport after Sambhaji Maharaj the son of warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji MaharajIron spikes were fixed in the path of farmers protesting near Delhi borders against the new farm laws and their electricity and water supplies were cut he saidBarbed wire fencing which should have been erected along the border was erected between farmers and Delhi China would not have intruded had such arrangement been made there along the border the chief minister saidAsking if the protesting farmers were terrorists he said the country was not the BJPs private propertyThe Shiv Sena was not part of the freedom struggle and neither was the parent organization of the BJP he said apparently referring to the Rashtriya Swaymsevak SanghTherefore only chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai does not prove your love for the country You dont have the right to chant Bharat Mata Ki Jai if you are not going to give justice to people and if you are forcing farmers to protest on the streets Thackeray saidFarmers are waiting for their income to double as promised but it has not happened he said adding that instead fuel prices have doubledHe also asked the BJP to give up its thought of separating Vidarbha from Maharashtra We will not let Vidarbha separate from Maharashtra he saidDespite being in power for six years at the Centre the BJP did not bring a law to construct Ram temple at Ayodhya and it became possible only due to the Supreme Court verdict Thackeray further saidYou formed government with separatists in Kashmiryou shared power with them Didnt your Hindutva get corrupted then he askedHow many displaced Kashmiri Pandits got homes Dont teach us about Hindutva you are not qualified to do that Thackeray told the former ally with which he parted ways after the 2019 Assembly electionsThe BJP did not keep its promise of sharing the chief ministers post though it had been discussed by him and then BJP chief Amit Shah in the room in the Thackeray residence where late Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray once lived he saidIs this your love for Balasaheb We dont consider that room as a room but it is a temple he saidThis 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