UBT faction issues ultimatum to Congress over Sangli Lok Sabha seat
Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Sena faction on Thursday bluntly told the Congress party that if it wants to harbor ambitions of it leading the country and its party leader becoming the Prime Minister of the country then it should let the UBT have the Sangli Lok Sabha seat.
“Congress is a big party, we believe that the Congress is to lead the country, we (UBT) don’t want to lead it. We want the Prime Minister of the country to be from the Congress party. For just one seat (Sangli) are you ready to lose the Prime Minister’s post, they (Congress) should think it over.”said UBT Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut.
Referring to threats of the local leadership of Sangli announcing that they would not be working for the UBT candidate, Raut warned, “ If someone is talking of a boycott then it is very dangerous for the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance, if the same situation happens in other constituencies in the state then who would be responsible.”
Raut was referring to the Maharashtra Congress leadership's anger over the UBT unilaterally declaring candidates for Lok Sabha seats in Mumbai and Sangli. Senior Congress leaders like Balasaheb Thorat and other Congress leaders from Sangli had publicly expressed their anger that the UBT in spite of the seat sharing discussions not being over went ahead and announced its candidate in Sangli.
While State Congress leaders have met the Congress leadership in Delhi to complain and have said that they would be asking the UBT leadership to hand over the Sangli seat to them. Congress leaders are
