Polls will be fight against betrayal and for Maharashtra's self-respect: Uddhav

The Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said that the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections will be a fight against betrayal and for Maharashtras selfrespect reported the PTIAccording to the PTI Uddhav Thackeray was addressing party workers on the occasion of Vasant More a Punebased political leader who was earlier with the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena MNS formally joining the Shiv Sena UBTVasant More unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha elections 2024 from Maharashtras Pune seat as a candidate of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi VBA BJPs Murlidhar Mohol defeated Congress candidate Ravindra Dhangekar from this seatUddhav Thackeray said that the Pune city should now be the centre of change of power in the stateThe Lok Sabha poll was a battle to save the Constitution he said adding The assembly elections will be against betrayal and helplessness It will be forMaharashtras fight is for selfrespect the former chief minister saidHe was referring to the rebellion in the undivided Shiv Sena two years ago by party MLAs led by Eknath Shinde who later became the chief ministerMaharashtra assembly elections are scheduled to be held in October this yearMeanwhile earlier while speaking about the recent Lok Sabha polls Uddhav Thackeray said the defeat of his party candidates in Aurangabad Raigad and RatnagiriSindhudurg hit him hardHe urged his workers to ask voters the reason behind party candidate Chandrakant Khaires loss from AurangabadUddhav Thackeray said Shiv Sena leader Sandipan Bhumres win in Aurangabad was achieved by stealing his partys name and symbolThe former CM acknowledged the burning torch symbol of the Shiv Sena UBT which it got post the split could not effectively reach people in the Lok Sabha pollsHitting back Shinde said Thackeray should stop whining as people voted for the Shiv Sena since the latter had abandoned the ideals of founder Bal ThackerayFor how long will you whine People voted for us because he Thackeray abandoned the ideals of Balasaheb We fought 13 seats against them and won sevenTheir Shiv Sena UBT strike is 42 per cent and ours is 47 per cent CM Shinde saidThe Shiv Sena UBT contested 21 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra and won nine while the Shindeled Sena contested 15 seats and emerged victorious on seven In direct fights between the two parties on 13 seats the Shiv Sena won sevenCM Shinde asserted the Lok Sabha results had showed people voted from his party adding the assembly polls will make it more evident whose party is the real Shiv SenaSpeaking in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Thackeray had said the assembly polls likely to be held in OctoberNovember will be fought on Maharashtras selfrespectwith PTI inputs