Mumbai, December 05: Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday sounded the bugle for the upcoming civic polls lashing out at the Congress and NCP for ‘ignoring’ the development of the metropolis.
“If these two parties (Congress and NCP) think that they can capture the Mumbai civic body by forming an alliance in the civic elections, then here is an open challenge for them. Let them do it. I promise to defeat their alliance. We will inflict a stinging defeat that and will bury these parties that they will never dare to stand up,” Uddhav said at a rally organised in suburban Andheri.
The rally was organised to welcome Jayawant Parab in Sena, who had left the party along with party rebel and current Industries Minister Narayan Rane.
Parab re-joined Shiv Sena last Sunday.
Uddhav alleged that the the Congress-NCP combine had sanctioned merely Rs 78 crore for Mumbai.
“The ruling state government has spent Rs50 crore on Kasab and they have only Rs78 crores for Mumbai,” he charged.
Targetting Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Uddhav said the former should have had second thoughts before appealing to voters in Vidarbha as over 1000 farmers have committed suicide in that region.
Parab who wields influence in pockets of Andheri and Varsova areas, said he was misguided by Rane while deserting the party.
——PTI