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The Shiv Sena (UBT) and Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi on Monday announced an alliance, coinciding with the birth anniversary of Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray.
Addressing a joint press conference, Uddhav Thackeray said his grandfather Keshav Thackeray, also known as Prabodhankar Thackeray, and Prakash Ambedkar’s grandfather, legendary social icon and jurist B R Ambedkar, were contemporaries who admired each other and worked to eradicate social evils and bad practices.
“Now there are some bad practices in politics and to eradicate them, the inheritors of these two leaders, and people around them, have come together to protect the country’s interest. We are coming together to ensure democracy is alive,” Thackeray said.
Without naming the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is ruling in Maharashtra as well as at the Centre, Thackeray said the country is heading towards autocracy.
He also dared the powers-that-be to hold assembly polls in Maharashtra at the earliest.
There has been no announcement of elections till now. I want to challenge traitors (Shinde faction) to conduct elections…If they (Shiv-Sena Shinde faction & BJP) have guts then they should declare elections, Ex-CM & Shiv-Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray was quoted as saying by ANI
