Taking aim at PM Modi for his ‘false’ Shiv Sena barb, Uddhav responds, “My party is not like your degree.”

The head of the Shiv Sena (UBT), Uddhav Thackeray, criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday for saying that his party was not like “your degree” and called him out on his “fake Shiv Sena” remarks.

During a campaign event for his party’s Palghar Lok Sabha constituency candidate, Bharti Kamdi, in Boisar, near Mumbai, Thackeray said that the opposition INDIA alliance would defeat the BJP by crossing the 300-mark.

In addition, he pledged to abandon the Palghar district’s Vadhavan port project, claiming that local fisherman reject it.

Attacking the BJP and the Union government, Thackeray said that while ecologically harmful projects were being brought in Maharashtra, excellent ones were being moved to Gujarat.

He also promised that Palghar will see the construction of a new airport.

“The Shiv Sena is being termed bogus. It was created by the Shiv Sena pramukh (Bal Thackeray) to fight for the rights of sons of soil. To call it phony is not in line with your degree, Thackeray said.

At a Maharashtra rally earlier this week, Modi called the Sena, which is headed by Thackeray, a sham.

“DMK, an alliance partner from India, is discussing the completion of Sanatan and connecting Sanatana Dharma to dengue and malaria.

The PM had said, “And the Congress and the phony Shiv Sena are inviting the same people to rallies in Maharashtra.”

Thackeray went on to say that in the late 1990s, he had been to the Vadhavan region and engaged with the locals and fisherman.

Following their conversation, he informed his father, Sena leader Bal Thackeray, about their objections to the port project, and the former chief minister said that the project had to be abandoned.

“If you are moving forward with the Vadhavan project without considering the objections raised by the public, then by all means proceed. Thackeray said, “We will overthrow this government with the people’s bulldozer.”

The president of the Sena (UBT) warned that if Bharti Kamdi wins, she would oppose the proposal in the Lok Sabha.

The Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change gave the Vadhavan port project environmental permission earlier this year.

Maharashtra Maritime Board and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) are developing the Rs 76,220-crore project.

In the meanwhile, Thackeray said that the BJP was “corrupt” after the summons of Amol Kirtikar, the party’s candidate for North-West Mumbai, by the Enforcement Directorate over the “khichdi” fraud in the Mumbai municipal body.

Notably, Thackeray traveled 110 kilometers from Boisar to Mumbai by a suburban local train after the gathering.

Thackeray was escorted in the first class compartment by Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut, his personal aide Milind Narvekar, and a few other party figures.

Speaking at the INDIA bloc rally is Uddhav Thackeray, the chairman of the Shiv Sena (UBT).
In Maharashtra LS elections, Uddhav’s Shiv Sena is expected to surpass Shinde’s group in numbers.