Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana said Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has abandoned Hindutva and takes orders from Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
She also accused the Shiv Sena supremo of misusing the sedition law and slammed him for allowing people to offer flowers at Mughal ruler Aurangzeb’s grave.
While speaking to media, the Independent MP said, “The chief minister only has fear in his mind and Shiv Sena has abandoned the path of Hindutva.”
Her husband and Independent MLA Ravi Rana said Balasaheb Thackeray had famously declared that he would disband the Shiv Sena if he had to join hands with the Congress.
“But, Uddhav Thackeray has discarded the ideals of Balasaheb Thackeray and is now acting as per the directions of the ‘Matoshree’ of 10, Janpath,” Rana couple said in an apparent reference to Congress President Sonia Gandhi.
They recalled that Shiv Sena had declared it will change the name of Aurangabad to Sambhaji Nagar, but now the chief minister claims that it was not required.
The Rana couple suggested that Thackeray was worried that if he followed up on the long-standing promise to rename Aurangabad, Shiv Sena’s alliance partners would withdraw support and the government would fall.
They also accused Thackeray of misusing power to slap sedition charges on those reciting Hanuman Chalisa, and allowing persons offering flowers at the grave of Mughal ruler Aurangzeb go scot free.
“Had Balasaheb Thackeray been around, such persons would have been buried in the same grave as Aurangzeb. How dare a person from another state come here and offer flowers on the grave of Aurangzeb,” Navneet Rana said, referring to the visit of AIMIM leader Akbaruddin Owaisi to Khuldabad, where the grave of Aurangzeb is located.
