‘Uddhav Thackeray, Sanjay Raut told me to attack Manohar Joshi’s house', says Shinde faction MLA

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Maharashtra Assembly elections since Manohar Joshi had opposed his candidature. Hence Thackeray had instructed me to visit Joshi's house and attack," he said. Following Thackeray's orders, Sarvankar left for Joshi's residence with 15-20 party workers and Sanjay Raut was already aware of the plan to attack Joshi's residence.

“He (Sanjay Raut) instructed me to get petrol from a nearby petrol pump and burn down his residence. When I reached Joshi's residence, I found some Shiv Sena workers and media personnel already present there," he told ANI. After the attack, Sarvankar informed that a received a call from Thackeray's close aide ‘Milind Narvekar’ who congratulated him for the attack.

“He (Milind Narvekar) called me to reach Matoshree, Uddhav Thackeray's residence the next day at 11 am. Narvekar had also confirmed his candidature in the Assembly polls. The next day, Uddhav Thackeray allegedly threw some newspaper pages at me about its coverage of Sada Sarvankar's attack on Manohar Joshi's house and declined to give me the ticket.

Sanjay Raut was also present at Matoshree during this incident," Sarvankar claimed as quoted by ANI. He said that Manohar Joshi did not complain to the police about this entire incident and called him a 'guru' (teacher). (With ANI inputs)