Lok Sabha elections 2024: Uddhav Thackeray attacks PM Modi over a “fake Shiv Sena” comment, saying “My party not like your degree.”
News agency ANI stated that Uddhav Thackeray, the president of Shiv Sena (UBT), has retaliated against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement characterizing the party as “fake.”.
In reaction to Prime Minister Modi, Thackeray said that his party is not the same as “your degree.”.
The leader of the Shiv Sena (UBT) said that Bal Thackeray formed his party to defend the rights of the populace.
“People are calling the Shiv Sena, which Bal Thackeray created to defend the rights of sons of soil, phony. This is a phony Shiv Sena, they claim. To label it false is not in line with your degree. Are you referring to this degree as fake? At a campaign gathering on Friday, Uddhav Thackeray claimed, “After him (PM Modi), his other party member Amit Shah came and he also called it fake,” according to ANI.
At a public gathering in Chandrapur, Maharashtra, on Monday, the prime minister said, “DMK, an alliance partner of India, is talking about concluding Sanatan and connecting Sanatana Dharma to dengue and malaria. Additionally, the same individuals are being invited to rallies in Maharashtra by the Congress and the phony Shiv Sena.”
Amit Shah, meanwhile, said on Thursday that Rahul Gandhi is leading three parties that have come together in Maharashtra. Half of Congress, one phony NCP, and one fake Shiv Sena. In Gujarat, we say something called ‘Teen Tighda Kaam Bigada’. Both Sharad Ji’s NCP and Uddhav Ji’s Shiv Sena are on the left, and together they have cut the Congress party in half, according to ANI.
At a Friday campaign event in Boisar, near Mumbai, Uddhav Thackeray predicted that the India alliance would win more than 300 seats in the Lok Sabha.
“I am saying this with pride and confidence, that the India alliance will form the government and will win more than 300 seats,” he said.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led administration fell in June 2022 when Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde and forty other MLAs rebelled against the party’s leadership and defected to the BJP.
When well-known figures like Ajit Pawar and Chhagan Bhujbal sided with the state’s governing BJP in 2023, the NCP also experienced a rift.
As part of the newly created India bloc, the Shiv Sena (UBT) will now compete against the BJP in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections of 2024.
With 48 Lok Sabha seats, Maharashtra has the second-largest number after Uttar Pradesh. The BJP, running in coalition with the Shiv Sena, won 23 of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 elections.
There will be five phases to the Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections in 2024, with 48 seats up for grabs: April 19, April 26, May 7, May 13, and May 20. On June 4, the votes will be tallied.
