Mumbai: After Uddhav Thackeray’s attack on chief minister Devendra Fadanvis, the Shiv Sena fired fresh salvos at the BJP through the party mouthpiece Saamana on Monday. An editorial in Saamana has asked the BJP to keep talks of its vision of development to itself. It has also claimed that Maharashtra, which belongs to Shivaji and Balasaheb Thackeray, doesn’t need any such vision.
In the run-up to the Mumbai civic polls, the Sena asked the BJP to keep talks of its “development vision” to itself and refrain from giving any lessons to others. “The BJP’s vision in matters of law and order, corruption and demonetisation has failed,” the Sena said, rebutting Mr Fadnavis’s recent remarks that an alliance for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls would happen only if the BJP’s vision of development is acceptable to the Sena.
The editorial further states, “At least, Chhatrapati Shivaji’s and Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray’s Maharashtra does not need such a vision. The Centre’s vision of demonetisation has led to financial anarchy and rendered crores of people jobless.”
The editorial says that the BJP claims that demonetisation will cripple terrorism, but that hasn’t happened and, instead, there has been an attack in Kashmir.
The editorial also questions why an informal chat that the chief minister had came out in the public domain, and why there hasn’t been a rebuttal for the same. “In an informal chat (with journalists) in Nagpur last week, Fadnavis had said an alliance with Sena would happen only if the Sena accepts the BJP’s development vision. If this talk was unofficial, how did it get such wide publicity? We do not need any clarifications on the issue, knowing the BJP’s way of doing things by flaunting grand visions,” read the editorial.
