Uddhav flaunts his Hindutva colours, says we are like RSS

In a broadside intended to burnish his own saffron credentials, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said Hindutva was not under threat from anyone else but from neo-Hindus who were exploiting the term to come to power.

- Chaitanya Marpakwar

Mumbai: They are now adopting the British policy of divide and rule to remain in power.

Thackeray said under the Constitution, the states and Centre enjoy equal powers and states don’t have to genuflect before the Centre. He alleged that the BJP-led Centre was trying to destabilise Maharashtra by resorting to IT raids to ‘fix’ the state’s leaders.

“At a time when companies are leaving China and Maharashtra is trying to attract them, even in the pandemic, they are trying to defame Maharashtra by making drug hauls and catching some celebrities, he added.

“They sent CSR funds to Gujarat, central departments are giving funds to RSS and pro-BJP organizations…they are all talking as if there are drugs in every corner here, and are sniffing out a few grams of drugs, but drugs worth crores were found at the Mundra port in Gujarat,” Thackeray said.