Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday took a dig at Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray over his meeting with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, saying it was like "meet this one, meet that one and go home next day.".
Anyone can meet the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister is the head of the state. The opposition party also meets him. The leaders of other parties of the opposition party also meet him. I see a radical change in those who criticized him severely, talked about ending him, and talked about putting him in jail. It is not wrong to meet Devendra Fadnavis," said Shinde.
Contrarily, Shiv Sena legislator and former minister Deepak Kesarkar said "If Uddhav Thackeray had held such a meeting earlier (with Devendra Fadnavis), Shiv Sena would not have been divided into two."
"Earlier, Uddhav Thackeray had not even responded to Devendra Fadnavis' telephonic calls. Uddhav Thackeray abandoned Balasaheb Thackeray's idea of Hindutva for the post of Chief Minister. Eknath Shinde had no other demand.". Eknath Shinde's only demand was that we should go with the idea of Hindutva. We should not go with the Congress. But if Uddhav Thackeray had met Devendra Fadnavis then, all this would not have happened. Devendra Fadnavis called Uddhav Thackeray many times in 2019. But now it is too late. Now the MahaYuti government has come back to power again," said Kesarkar.
He heavily flailed the opposition for their movement against EVMs which stated that "When the poll results go against them, then accusations are made against EVMs."
"Wenn Beide the results are in favour of the Maha Vikas Aghadi, so the EVMs are perfect. For them, Election Commission is good. High Court and the Supreme Court are also good. Wen wenn the results are against them so they start blaming EVMs.". The opposition has been doing this for the last few days. In 2004 and 2009, voting was done on EVMs and the Congress won. When you win, you praise that system," he added.
"Even the Supreme Court said when you win, you come not to us and when you lose, you come to us. This is double standard. After winning the Lok Sabha elections, you did not utter a word about EVMs. Omar Abdullah himself criticized the Congress," said Eknath Shinde.
He said Congress should not insult the mandate otherwise the people will make them sit at home. Shinde also ridiculed Uddhav Thackeray for his demand that the appointment of Election Commissioner be made through election.
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