Team News Riveting
Mumbai, June 25
Shiv Sena workers came out on the streets of Thane to support party’s rebel leader Eknath Shinde and lodged a strong protest against the leadership.
The party activists staged a protest against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, his son Aaditya Thackeray and Member of Parliament Sanjay Raut. The Shiv Sena workers castigated the leadership for stepping far away from the policy of Hindutva and the ideologies of Shiv Sena Supremo Balasaheb Thackeray.
A video that that went viral showed the Shiv Sena workers gathered in Thane that is the stronghold of Shiv Sena rebel leader Eknath Shinde and raised slogans against Thackeray and Raut. They blamed Raut for creating a divide in the party.
“Shinde saab Shiv Sena abhi tak nahi chode hai. Vo akhri dam tak Shiv Sena me rahenge. Sanjay Raut ki vajah se hi Shiv Sena me itni badi fut ho gai hai. Sanjay Raut Gaddar hai… (Shinde is a part of Shiv Sena and he’ll remain in Shiv Sena forever. It is Sanjay Raut who has created a divide in the party. He is the traitor.)”, the Shiv Sena workers supporting Shinde said.
They also added that they were not only Shiv Sena workers but they belonged to Shiv Sena of Balasaheb Thackeray. They reiterated the initial statements made by Shinde that Shiv Sena led by Uddhav Thackeray was different than what was established by supremo Balasaheb Thackeray and abused Raut for creating a divide in the party.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena activists from Pune on Saturday attacked the office of party rebel Tanaji Sawant in the Katraj area of the city. A former minister, Sawant is an MLA from the Paranda Vidhan Sabha constituency in the Osmanabad district of Maharashtra. He is among the rebels who have joined Shinde camp.
Rebel leader Eknath Shinde on Saturday alleged the Maha Vikas Aghadi government led by Uddhav Thackeray had withdrawn the security cover provided to his family and those of other MLAs camping with him in Guwahati. In a letter from Guwahati, which he tweeted later, Shinde had brought the matter to the notice of the Chief Minister, Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil, Director General of Police (DGP) Rajnish Seth and all the police commissioners.
