Mumbai: Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray has asked Anant Geete, the Cabinet Minister for Heavy Industries, to resign from the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre. Geete is expected to tender his resignation as soon as Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in India from his US tour.
It is very significant that Uddhav made this announcement in response to the criticism made by his estranged cousin Raj Thackeray of the MNS. Raj Thackeray had criticised the Sena leadership saying that the party had patriarch Bal Thackeray been alive, he could have quit the alliance a month before. He also added that Uddhav should ask Geete to resign as a mark of protest against the insult meted out to the Shiv Sena.
Raj Thackeray has also launched a scathing attack on the BJP and said that he had smelt two months before that the BJP was not interested in keeping the alliance intact. He also criticised the manner in which the BJP insulted the Shiv Sena.
He said that it was very painful for him that a sitting MLA of MNS was welcomed by the BJP without consulting him. He explained that he had made all effort to to be fair with the BJP, but he found the BJP leadership opportunistic after it won the Lok Sabha elections.
It is important to note that the new equations are in the offing after the BJP-Shiv Sena split. The very next day after the break up, Uddhav called Raj and enquired about his health.
Although, both the parties denied the possibility of coming together, it is apparent that both the brothers want to target the BJP by advocating the need to unite for the cause of Marathi people and language.
However, Raj Thackeray has projected himself that he has a very tough stand over the non-Marathi people in Maharashtra. He announced that he could replace all the non Marathi security persons deployed for the purpose of private security with the local Marathi people. He added that he will have a special recruitment drive in the police force to give job to locals. This indicates that Raj and Uddhav are moving in a parallel direction or least not in a mood to cross each others' path in this Assembly election.
Raj ridiculed the Shiv Sena as well as Ramdas Athawale for the offer given to him for the post of deputy chief minister. Raj Thackeray made it clear that he will not have any ties with the BJP in the politics. On the other hand, he has been fighting the lonely battle since the beginning and presently all parties are following the same line.
It is notable that Raj presented his blue print for the overall development of the Maharashtra on September 25, the day the whole nation witnessed the blue print of Maharashtra politics with the collapse of the BJP Shiv Sena alliance and the Congress-NCP combine.
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