Maharashtra is an important part of the electoral puzzle this time. English newspaper The Indian Express has talked to Uddhav Thackeray, who was in the limelight during the election season in Maharashtra. In which he has mentioned the old issues of breaking the alliance with BJP. Regarding the reorganization of political forces in Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray said that the public can see where it started. We were with BJP on Hindutva and nationalism. Why did BJP do this to us (broke the alliance and the army)? My father had said, you take care of the country, we will take care of the state. It was going well. My father died in 2012, Modi came to my house. When Modi took oath as PM in 2014, it seemed as if a dream had come true. Later, after Amit Shah became the party president, his tactics changed. Before the 2014 assembly elections, Shah had asked us, have you conducted a survey? I said, we are fighting people (we go into battle), we do not survey. Shivaji did not conduct any survey. If the survey says you’re losing, would you give up the fight? Uddhav Thackeray said that earlier when senior BJP leaders like Pramod Mahajan, Gopinath Munde and Nitin Gadkari used to come to talk to the Army, there used to be a tussle. Now, he started with ego and statistics and sent Om Mathur (Rajasthan BJP leader) to talk to us. Their guarantee is use and throw away. That’s what they finally did to me in 2019. I had promised my father that Shiv Sena would have a Chief Minister and it was agreed with Amit Shah that Sena and BJP would have a Chief Minister for 2.5 years each. Devendra (Fadnavis) had said that he will groom my son Aditya as CM and he himself will go to Delhi. They made me a liar in front of my own people. Show me one (BJP) ally who is happy. Today there are only broken people in NDA. They do the same with their leaders.
