On Maharashtra leaders demanding Bharat Ratna for Balasaheb Thackeray and VD Savarkar, Amravati MP Navneet Rana says, “…PN Narasimha has been named for Bharat Ratna. I thinks all the names that have been announced are welcome. The demands have been made now, so I think that in the time to come, this government will take note of it. They should be awarded…”
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‘We are Hindutvawadi, but we are not the BJP’s slave’, says Shiv Sena in editorial
By PTI
PUNE: The Shiv Sena on Tuesday said Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s claim of working to fulfil the “dream” of Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray was a ploy to break the Marathi unity in Mumbai where civic polls are due.
“Why are you seeking votes in the name of Balasaheb? Has your Modi era, Modi wave started receding?” an editorial in the Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ asked.
In June this year, Sena MLA Eknath Shinde and 39 other legislators rebelled against the party leadership, leading to the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government.
Shinde was then sworn in as the chief minister on June 30 along with BJP leader Fadnavis as his deputy.
The editorial said leaders like Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP are now embracing the “dream of Balasaheb”, but they did not remember the late Sena supremo while snapping ties with the party in 2014.
They did not remember the dreams of Balasaheb while going back on the word of chief ministerial post to the Shiv Sena in 2019, it said.
“Fadnavis’s words are akin to the deceitful invitation of a fox, and people of Mumbai and Thane should be cautious,” the Marathi daily said.
“The language of ‘dream of Balasaheb’ used by the BJP is nothing but a ploy to break the Marathi unity in Mumbai and for that they are injuring the Shiv Sena,” it claimed.
The people who forgot (BJP veterans) Lal Krishna Advani, Atal Bihar Vajpayee, will they fulfil the dreams of Balasaheb? it asked.
Today’s Bharatiya Janata Party is “not the real BJP”, the editorial claimed and asked if the party, which belonged to Vajpayee and Advani, really exists.
“The BJP of Vajpayee was all about keeping the promise but it is not there now and that is why we left such BJP (alliance) and set out on a different path of “Hindutva”.
“Our political stand is still the same. We are Hindutvawadi, but we are not the BJP’s slave. We are honest servants of Maharashtra, not the ‘charandas’ (servant) of Delhi,” the Sena said.
ALSO READ | Uddhav vs Shinde: SC refers petitions filed by rival Shiv Sena factions to constitution bench
Further hitting out at Fadnavis, it said he is continuously chanting the name of Balasaheb.
“He is saying give us votes in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections and we (BJP) will fulfil Balasaheb’s dreams. What is this sham? Which dream of Balsaheb are you going to fulfil?” it asked.
“Your dream of creating a split in the Shiv Sena, was it the dream of Balasaheb?”, it asked.
Fadnavis was “wise and profound” but that status is now denigrated in the company of the Eknath Shinde faction, it claimed.
He (Fadnavis) does not speak on the issue of the state, he only speaks on the Shiv Sena.
“When Fadnavis was going and breaking Dahi Handis in Mumbai, thus competing with the Shiv Sena, at the same time threat messages were received from terrorists that they would launch an attack like 26/11,” the editorial said.
Who does not want festivals like Dahi Handi, but if life is there, anything can be achieved, it said.
In the last two years, restrictions were imposed on festivals by Prime Minister Narendra Modi because of COVID-19, the editorial said.
“Today you say there are no restrictions on festivals. We improved the health of Maharashtra by making it COVID-free and gave the state to you,” it said.
On the day of Dahi Handi, 1,500 COVID-19 cases were reported, the editorial said, but did not specify where those infections were recorded.
PUNE: The Shiv Sena on Tuesday said Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s claim of working to fulfil the “dream” of Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray was a ploy to break the Marathi unity in Mumbai where civic polls are due.
“Why are you seeking votes in the name of Balasaheb? Has your Modi era, Modi wave started receding?” an editorial in the Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ asked.
In June this year, Sena MLA Eknath Shinde and 39 other legislators rebelled against the party leadership, leading to the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government.
Shinde was then sworn in as the chief minister on June 30 along with BJP leader Fadnavis as his deputy.
The editorial said leaders like Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP are now embracing the “dream of Balasaheb”, but they did not remember the late Sena supremo while snapping ties with the party in 2014.
They did not remember the dreams of Balasaheb while going back on the word of chief ministerial post to the Shiv Sena in 2019, it said.
“Fadnavis’s words are akin to the deceitful invitation of a fox, and people of Mumbai and Thane should be cautious,” the Marathi daily said.
“The language of ‘dream of Balasaheb’ used by the BJP is nothing but a ploy to break the Marathi unity in Mumbai and for that they are injuring the Shiv Sena,” it claimed.
The people who forgot (BJP veterans) Lal Krishna Advani, Atal Bihar Vajpayee, will they fulfil the dreams of Balasaheb? it asked.
Today’s Bharatiya Janata Party is “not the real BJP”, the editorial claimed and asked if the party, which belonged to Vajpayee and Advani, really exists.
“The BJP of Vajpayee was all about keeping the promise but it is not there now and that is why we left such BJP (alliance) and set out on a different path of “Hindutva”.
“Our political stand is still the same. We are Hindutvawadi, but we are not the BJP’s slave. We are honest servants of Maharashtra, not the ‘charandas’ (servant) of Delhi,” the Sena said.
ALSO READ | Uddhav vs Shinde: SC refers petitions filed by rival Shiv Sena factions to constitution bench
Further hitting out at Fadnavis, it said he is continuously chanting the name of Balasaheb.
“He is saying give us votes in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections and we (BJP) will fulfil Balasaheb’s dreams. What is this sham? Which dream of Balsaheb are you going to fulfil?” it asked.
“Your dream of creating a split in the Shiv Sena, was it the dream of Balasaheb?”, it asked.
Fadnavis was “wise and profound” but that status is now denigrated in the company of the Eknath Shinde faction, it claimed.
He (Fadnavis) does not speak on the issue of the state, he only speaks on the Shiv Sena.
“When Fadnavis was going and breaking Dahi Handis in Mumbai, thus competing with the Shiv Sena, at the same time threat messages were received from terrorists that they would launch an attack like 26/11,” the editorial said.
Who does not want festivals like Dahi Handi, but if life is there, anything can be achieved, it said.
In the last two years, restrictions were imposed on festivals by Prime Minister Narendra Modi because of COVID-19, the editorial said.
“Today you say there are no restrictions on festivals. We improved the health of Maharashtra by making it COVID-free and gave the state to you,” it said.
On the day of Dahi Handi, 1,500 COVID-19 cases were reported, the editorial said, but did not specify where those infections were recorded.
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Irked Shiv Sena worker purifies Balasaheb Thackeray memorial after BJP union minister’s visit
Express News Service
MUMBAI: After Union Minister Narayan Rane’s visit to late Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray’s memorial in Dadar, irked Shiv Sena workers ‘purified’ the memorial by giving milk ‘abhisheka’ and sprinkling gomutra at the memorial.
The newly indicted union minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government kick-started BJP’s ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ by visiting his old political mentor late Balasaheb Thackeray’s memorial. Rane said Balasaheb Thackeray had played a major role in his political career.
“I bowed before Balasaheb Thackeray and told him that saheb you should have been alive today to give me a blessing,” Rane later told reporters.
However, Shiv Sena Lok Sabha MP Vinayak Raut criticised the visit of Narayan Rane to the Balasaheb Thackeray memorial. He said that Narayan is a traitor.
ALSO READ | Narayan Rane has no moral right to visit Balasaheb’s memorial: Sena MP
“Rane cheated Shiv Sena. He made his career by using Sena and when Sena needed him, he left Sena. He is a selfish person. Balasaheb Thackeray criticised his greedy and selfish nature. Therefore, we protested against his visit. He has no right to visit Balasaheb Thackeray memorial at all,” Raut said.
Appa Patil, Shiv Sena worker who purified Balasaheb Thackeray memorial said that he starts his day visiting and doing pooja at Thackeray memorial. Therefore, he does not want to visit ‘unpurified’ memorial after Narayan Rane’s visit.
He further added Narayan had no moral right to visit Balasaheb Thackeray memorial. Shiv Sena had opposed the visit of Narayan Rane to Thackeray memorial.
Reacting to Shiv Sena worker’s decision to purify the memorial, BJP leaders said “the time has come to purify the Shiv Sena.”
“Does Shiv Sena have any moral high ground to do the purification of late Bal Thackeray memorial? They joined hands with Congress for power. NCP leader Chahagan Bhujbal put Balasaheb Thackeray in jail, with whom Sena is enjoying the power, it shows Sena’s morality. Therefore, Sena’s purification has to be done so that they will get some sense,” Shelar slammed.
Meanwhile, Leader of Opposition, Legislative Council and BJP MLC Pravin Darekar said that Balasaheb Thackeray memorial is not the private property of anyone that they will stop visiting it.
“Everyone loved and revered Balasaheb Thackeray. There should not be any objection over visiting his memorial,” Darekar said.