Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief Sanjay Raut on Sunday claimed a “deal of Rs 2000 crore” has taken place to date to “buy” the Shiv Sena get together identify and its ‘bow and arrow’ image.
Nonetheless, MLA Sada Sarvankar from the camp led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde dismissed the declare and requested, “Is Sanjay Raut a cashier?” Raut in a tweet claimed the Rs 2,000 crore was a preliminary determine and this was 100 per cent true. He additionally instructed reporters {that a} builder near the ruling dispensation shared this data with him.
The Rajya Sabha member stated his declare was backed by proof which he would disclose quickly.
The Election Fee on Friday recognised the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the actual Shiv Sena and ordered allocation of the ‘bow and arrow’ ballot image to it.
In a 78-page order on the protracted battle for management of the organisation, the EC allowed the Uddhav Thackeray faction to maintain the “flaming torch” ballot image allotted to it until the completion of the Meeting bypolls within the state.
Raut on Sunday stated Rs 2,000 crore will not be a small quantity to “buy” the identify Shiv Sena.
“The EC’s resolution is a deal,” he alleged.
“I’ve dependable data that there was a deal of Rs 2000 crore to get the Shiv Sena identify and its image.
It is a preliminary determine and is 100 per cent true. Many issues might be revealed shortly. By no means earlier than this has occurred within the nation’s historical past,” Raut tweeted.
To a query on Union House Minister Amit Shah’s assault on former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray with “licking soles of these with reverse ideology” jibe, Raut requested, “What’s the current chief minister licking? Maharashtra doesn’t give significance to what Shah says. The present chief minister has no proper to take Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s identify.” Shah on Saturday stated those that selected to “lick the soles” of individuals with reverse ideologies have discovered which facet reality was on after the EC declared the faction headed by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde as the actual Shiv Sena and gave it the ‘bow and arrow’ image.
With out naming Uddhav Thackeray, Shah additionally reiterated there was no settlement on sharing the chief minister’s put up within the run as much as the 2019 Meeting polls.
The Shiv Sena broke its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Celebration after the outcomes of the 2019 Meeting polls had been declared, claiming the latter had reneged on a promise to share the CM’s put up with it.
Uddhav Thackeray subsequently teamed up with the Nationalist Congress Celebration and the Congress to steer the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), until it fell in June final 12 months after Shinde rebelled.