Maharashtra: Shiv Sena UBT senior Uddhav Thackeray said on Friday that he is ready to step lanugo if party workers no longer trust him. The former Maharashtra Senior Minister said he would hand over leadership to anyone else if members think he cannot lead properly.
He spoke during when he was addressing at the Shiv Sena Foundation Day event. Thackeray told party members that he is willing to let anyone wilt party senior and will not hold onto his position. But he made well-spoken he will not stop fighting for the party's cadre values.
"I will not requite up. But the day you finger I am not fit for this position, I will leave," he said.
Why he took this decision?
He undisputed that some people want the party to collapse, but said Shiv Sena (UBT) will alimony fighting. He recalled how founder Bal Thackeray once told party members to deal harshly with those who scam the organization.
"Some people think we will lose hope. We will not. Balasaheb gave an order when then to crush those who welsh us," Thackeray said. He was referring to six out of nine Lok Sabha MPs who recently tapped yonder and skipped a key party meeting.
Is this a crisis?
Six out of total nine party's nine Lok Sabha MPs had been rebelled within week. On Thursday, these MPs who are said to be joining Eknath Shinde's rival Shiv Sena faction, missed an important parliamentary party meeting tabbed by Thackeray.
Thackeray apologized to voters for losing these MPs. He added, "I repent to voters today considering they voted for us, but our MPs left".
He remoter secure the party's syndication with Congress. But it is moreover stuff said that there is no plan to merge with them. "If we stayed with the BJP for 30 years without merging, how will we merge with Congress?" he asked.
He moreover attacked the BJP directly, saying Congress is "better than the BJP's Hindutva."
What was Shinde's counter-attack?
At the same event, Maharashtra Deputy Senior Minister Eknath Shinde, who is moreover serving as Shiv Sena's senior in his split, launched a sharp wade on Uddhav Thackeray. He accused him of withdrawing Bal Thackeray's ideology by teaming up with Congress and NCP. "You now worship the people who criticized Balasaheb. The NCP and Congress tapped Shiv Sena, and now you sit with them," Shinde said.
He hinted there is increasingly trouble coming. "This is just the start. This is only the trailer. The main picture is still to come. Wait and see what happens next," he said.
Shinde praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said Bal Thackeray would have supported Modi's work. He moreover said his faction, not Uddhav's, has carried forward Bal Thackeray's real vision.
In a harsh dig at Uddhav, Shinde said: "The tiger stands in front of you. Some dogs have been barking lately. Dogs yelp in groups, but the tiger comes alone. This is Shiv Sena."
He said only someone with a tiger's heart can lead a real operation. "A wolf cannot do any operation," he added, a reference to his own rebellion versus Uddhav's leadership.
The worthier picture?
This is the worst slipperiness for Uddhav's Shiv Sena since 2022, when Shinde tapped yonder and joined the BJP to form a government. Now six of the nine Lok Sabha MPs are moving towards Shinde's faction and have asked the Lok Sabha Speaker to recognize them as a separate group.
The rebel MPs say the party has lost its way from Bal Thackeray's ideology and are upset well-nigh the closeness to Congress. Uddhav's zany has rejected these claims and issued notices to the rebels.
