Shiv Sena will soon have its CM again, vows Uddhav Thackeray

TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ Shiv Sena president and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance experiment led by him was not wrong and people had welcomed it.

 In the second part of his interview to Shiv Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Thackeray said he wants not just local body polls due in Maharashtra, but also the Assembly elections and claimed the Sena will have its own CM once again for which he will tour the state to rejuvenate the party cadre.

 The BJP is giving everything to those who have come from other parties – from the post of chief minister (Sena rebel Eknath Shinde) to leader of opposition (which is currently held by NCP’s Ajit PAwar), said Thackeray, who turned 62 on Wednesday.

 “Delhi wants to instigate a Shiv Sena versus Shiv Sena fight and divide the Marathi-speaking people. If the present rulers fear the opposition, it is their inefficiency. In a democracy, no party is a permanent winner,” he said. Thackeray said “people had welcomed the MVA experiment” and that the three-party alliance was born out of the BJP’s denial of what was assured to him.

 “The Shiv Sena will have a chief minister again. I will work to expand the party base and cadre. I will start touring the state from August. I want to have maximum membership,” he said in the interview to Shiv Sena MP and Saamana’s executive editor Sanjay Raut.