Uddhav targets PM over scheduled U.S. trip and lashes out at him for failing to defuse Manipur tensions
The Hindu
Mr. Thackeray further warned the BJP that they could never come to power.
Launching a broadside against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, former Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday criticised the PM for scheduling a tour of the U.S. instead of trying to defuse the situation in the violence-racked northeastern State of Manipur.
Mr. Thackeray, addressing a conclave of his party leadership and rank and file ahead of the Shiv Sena’s 57th foundational day on June 19 in Worli today, further warned the BJP that they could never come to power by fostering communal riots in the State and across the country.
“If you [PM Modi] want to show your strength, then first go to Manipur and try and get things under control… No one even cares about Amit Shah there, such is the fury of the locals at the moment. PM Modi is willing to go to America and give advice, but cannot visit Manipur. He brags about allegedly stopping the Russia-Ukraine war, but I want to see if he can calm Manipur down,” said Mr. Thackeray.
Expressing concern that the PM and the BJP’s authoritarian rule was threatening to “split the country in pieces”, the former CM said he would be attending the meeting of non-BJP parties in Patna on June 23.
“However, we are not merely Opposition parties who are getting together just to oust the BJP at the Centre. We are patriots who seek to protect our country’s freedom and save democracy,” he said.
Mr. Thackeray further said that a PM could not be greater than the country while taking aim at the blind devotion shown by the Modi ‘bhakts’ (acolytes).
He warned that the BJP under Mr. Modi was hurtling the country towards dictatorship in the manner that Adolph Hitler steered Germany in the 1930s.
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