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Shiv Sena-UBT supremo Uddhav Thackeray has dropped hints that he was ready to be projected as the chief ministerial face in the Maharashtra Assembly elections likely to be held in October.
Thackeray’s comments came on a day when he met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretary K C Venugopal and other INDIA bloc representatives here.
Thackeray was accompanied by his son Aditya and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut.
Uddhav also dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop atrocities against Hindus in violence-ravaged Bangladesh. In a press conference, Thackeray said the prime minister could stop the war in Ukraine, he could certainly do so in India’s neighbouring country.
“If Prime Minister Modi could stop the war in Ukraine, he should also take similar steps in Bangladesh and save the Hindus there,” he said.
“If he can stop the war between Ukraine and Russia, then tell Papa to stop this war, too. Papa, atrocities are being done against Hindus in Bangladesh, please do justice to them,” Thackeray said in a dig at the government alluding to the BJP’s Lok Sabha elections campaign advertisement.
