Narayan Rane’s silence will be just as powerful, says Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil

His reaction comes after court grants bail to Union Minister

After a local court in Raigad district granted bail to Union Minister Narayan Rane over his remarks against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, the BJP’s Maharashtra unit president Chandrakant Patil on August 25 said that the court’s decision was akin to a slap on the face of Mr. Thackeray’s Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, which operated solely on the strength of strongmen and by misusing the police machinery. Mr. Patil further remarked that the MVA government’s prosecution of Mr. Rane was solely motivated by political vendetta and public support for him would be even more overwhelming in the Konkan region during the remainder of the Minister’s ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’. “This [the court’s bail order] is victory of truth… Mr. Rane has emerged unscathed from the clutches of the police...henceforth, even if he doesn’t speak a single word during the rest of his Yatra, his silence will be just as powerful and his presence just as commanding. People will turn out in even greater numbers to see their beloved leader,” asserted Mr. Patil.