Uddhav takes dig at Shinde, says 'so-called Shiv Sainik is CM'

The Eknath Shinde-led rebel group of the party has been alleging that the “party leadership” has compromised with the ideals of Hindutva

Hours after he was ousted as Maharashtra chief minister, Uddhav Thackeray took a dig at his successor Eknath Shinde saying that a so-called Shiv Sainik was the chief minister.

"The BJP made a so-called Shiv Sainik a chief minister,” said Thackeray during a media interaction at the Shiv Sena Bhavan - in his first comments as a former CM.

The Shiv Sena president maintained that the BJP had gone back on its promise of a rotational CM’s post with the two saffron parties sharing the chair for two-and-a-half years each.

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“About what happened yesterday, I had told (then BJP president and now Home Minister) Amit Shah earlier as well that there should be a Shiv Sena CM for two-and-a-half years and a BJP CM for two-and-a-half years… had this been the case, there should not have been a Maha Vikas Aghadi,” he said.

The Eknath Shinde-led rebel group of the party has been alleging that the “party leadership” had compromised with the ideals of Hindutva and made an alliance with the "ideologically opposite" NCP-Congress. Besides, they felt that the NCP-Congress were getting benefitted at the cost of the Shiv Sena.