Maharashtra In the midst of ongoing political developments in the state Chief Minister Eknath Shinde Has strongly attacked the Congress. He accused the Congress on Sunday of creating fear among Muslims on various issues and trying to create a rift between them and Hindus. The Chief Minister of Maharashtra said these things in the first meeting of Shiv Sena for minorities in the state at Shanmukhanand Bhavan.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said that the Muslims who respect this state and country are ours. However, it was the Congress which always created a rift between the two communities (Hindu and Muslim). For years Congress has been playing politics of vote bank, creating rift and keeping both the communities away from each other. He said that during the communal tension in Mumbai and Thane, Shiv Sena workers have protected not only temples but also mosques. If we were against the minority community, we would not have made Abdul Sattar (Agriculture Minister) a minister. We respect all communities.
BJP’s ‘one nation, one party’ plan will not be accepted: Uddhav Thackeray
Here, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said on Sunday that BJP’s ‘one country, one party’ plan will never be accepted. He claimed that the “charisma” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is fading. Addressing a rally at Digras in Yavatmal district, Thackeray raised the issue of induction of nine NCP MLAs from the Ajit Pawar faction into the Maharashtra government and questioned whether the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) would take over the government if it had the majority as claimed by the BJP. What was the need to ‘steal’ the NCP).
Thackeray claimed that the Union Home Minister had promised to share the chief minister’s post for two-and-a-half years with the undivided Shiv Sena during their meeting at his residence ‘Matoshree’ in Mumbai in October 2019. He said that but, after the assembly elections in 2019, he refused to accept his promise, as a result of which I joined hands with NCP and Congress.