‘You cannot finish Shiv Sena’: Uddhav Thackeray hits out at BJP days after BMC poll loss

NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) main Uddhav Thackeray, aft the decision successful the BMC polls, launched an onslaught connected the BJP. He said that the saffron enactment was mistaken if they deliberation that Shiv Sena tin beryllium destroyed. Calling his enactment the awesome of the sons of the soil, helium remarked that Shiv Sena is not conscionable a governmental enactment but an idea.Addressing his enactment workers connected the juncture of the 100th day of Balasaheb Thackeray, helium said, "Shiv Sena is not conscionable a governmental party. And if the BJP thinks that Shiv Sena volition decorativeness it off, you cannot decorativeness Shiv Sena."He further added, "You cannot destruct Shiv Sena due to the fact that Shiv Sena is not a party. Shiv Sena is an ideology. Shiv Sena is the embodiment of the sons of the soil. And Shiv Sena is the torch burning successful the hearts of the oppressed; you cannot extinguish it.

You perfectly cannot extinguish it."The erstwhile Maharashtra main curate besides claimed that Shiv Sena has played a immense relation for the BJP, arsenic helium said, "Had the Shiv Sena not been there, the BJP would person ne'er seen the wrong of the BMC oregon mantralaya," quality bureau PTI reported.The effect comes arsenic the enactment chief's archetypal effect aft his decision successful the Mumbai civic assemblage polls. BJP emerged arsenic the largest enactment successful the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

Dismissing the morals of the BJP's triumph successful the civic polls, Thackeray further added that "money powerfulness was utilized for the archetypal clip during the civic polls successful the city," and claimed that, "The Opposition faced respective hurdles, specified arsenic flawed electoral rolls, and the effect would person been adjacent much antithetic had the Sena (UBT) not identified dual voters."He besides expressed optimism successful Shiv Sena's relation successful the civic body, saying, "The BMC results whitethorn not beryllium arsenic per what the enactment desired, but the Opposition is simply a beardown unit successful the civic body," and claimed that the BJP "wants to swallow Mumbai.""We person to commencement afresh," helium said, adding that the Sena was calved not for powerfulness but for warring for the rights of Marathi manoos.The BJP won 89 retired of the 227 seats successful the January 15 polls, ending the Thackerays' decades-long power implicit India's richest civic body.He accused the BJP of attempting to enforce non-Marathi civilization connected Maharashtra and urged everyone to usage "Jai Maharashtra" arsenic a communal greeting.