Priyanka Gandhi PUNE: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday invoked Bal Thackeray while campaigning for the Maharashtra assembly polls, stating the Shiv Sena founder wouldn't have tolerated Shivaji Maharaj 's insult. Priyanka's rare reference to Thackeray, whose aggressive Hindutva was rejected by previous Congress generational leaders, comes at a time when PM Narendra Modi has dared the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) to ensure Rahul Gandhi speaks a few words of praise for Bal Thackeray and V D Savarkar. Priyanka accused the BJP of back-stabbing Uddhav Thackeray , an obvious reference to the toppling of the MVA government in 2022.
"Modi always takes the name of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. Yes, our ideologies (Congress's and Shiv Sena's) were different..
.Yes, our political thinking was different..
. But neither Balasaheb Thackeray nor any leader from the Congress and Rahul ji (Gandhi) would tolerate Shivaji Maharaj's insult," Priyanka stated while addressing poll rallies in Shirdi and Kolhapur. Maha Vikas Aghadi , formed after the 2019 assembly elections, consists of Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress, and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar).
Addressing rallies for MVA candidates, the AICC general secretary said Modi invokes Bal Thackeray publicly, but they (BJP) back-stabbed his son (Uddhav Thackeray). She accused Mahayuti leaders of insulting Shivaji Maharaj, raking up the collapse of his statue in Sindhudurg district in August, alleging corruption. "The statue of Chhatra.
