Uddhav Thackeray claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah are erecting a barrier between Gujarat and the rest of the country by prioritising Gujarat above other states.
«I keep saying, I don't have any issues with Gujaratis or Gujaratis. Those Gujarati brothers and sisters who are watching this, you have been living for several years in Mumbai and Maharashtra. We have never fought. However, between you (Gujarati) and the rest of the country Modi and Shah are building a wall that you need to be careful about,» said Thackeray. The UBT Sena President was addressing a rally at the Bandra Kurla complex on Sunday.
He added, «Modi and Shah may go but this wall that is being built would be worse than the German wall. It would take years to break this wall and till then there would be a lot of mayhem. Why are you doing this sin? If you take all our industries and business from here to Gujarat then what do the people in this state supposed to do,» questioned Uddhav Thackeray.
Thackeray said that the BJP can break the Shiv Sena as much as they want but like a tree sprouting new leaves the Shiv Sena will always rise up again. " It's like in politics you have no children of your own and you are stealing ours, you have no ideology, no principles. you put a statue of Sardar vallabhai Patel who had banned the RSS,«said Thackeray.
Referring to Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis's statement of the polls being a 'Dharmayudh' (religious war), Thackeray questioned why the Election Commission had not taken