Won't accept 'one nation, one party' plan of BJP: Uddhav Thackeray
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What sort of Hindutva is this?" he asked. Thackeray claimed Union Home Minister Amit Shah had promised him of sharing the chief minister's post with Shiv Sena (Undivided) for 2.5 years during their meeting at Matoshree, the private residence of the Thackerays in Mumbai, in October 2019. "However, post the assembly elections in 2019, he (Shah) refused to admit this promise, prompting me to join hands with the NCP and the Congress," he claimed.
Thackeray said if he gets another chance, he will ensure that a Shivsainik becomes the chief minister of Maharashtra again. Taking a swipe at the Centre over the violence in Manipur, he said the government should send officials of Income Tax, ED and CBI to the north-eastern state and try to "silence those people like these teams do in other parts of India. "Send them there and establish peace in Manipur," he said.
Speaking on the Uniform Civil Code, Thackeray said the Union government comes up with new issues every time and tries to divert the attention of people from existing controversies that could potentially affect it. “Now, the Union government has come up with UCC. We want the draft of the UCC to come out.
We are open for discussion on UCC. We have supported the abrogation of Article 370," Thackeray added. The former chief minister has been criticised by the BJP and incumbent CM Eknath Shinde that he spent most of his tenure sitting at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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