‘Come on, kill me!’: Uddhav quotes Nana Patekar, calls Shinde rally a ‘gathering of thieves’ as Sena war peaks on foundation day | India News

NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena’s 59th foundation day become a full-blown household feud on Thursday, with Uddhav Thackeray accusing the BJP of sabotaging a doable alliance with cousin Raj Thackeray’s MNS, and Eknath Shinde firing again with taunts of betrayal and starvation for energy.Holding parallel rallies in Mumbai, each Sena factions invoked Bal Thackeray’s legacy, and tore into one another over who really upholds it. While Shinde’s group gathered on the NSCI Dome in Worli, Uddhav’s faction selected the Shanmukhananda Hall in Sion.At the Sion rally, Uddhav quoted a fierce line from the 1991 movie Prahaar to lash out on the Shinde camp. “Like Nana Patekar in the movie, I stand before the gaddars and say, ‘Come on, kill me!’” he stated, earlier than including, “But come with an ambulance, like in Trishul, because you’ll need it.”He alleged the BJP was working additional time to dam any unity between Marathi events. “They’re holding hotel meetings to stop us. But if you try to destroy the Thackeray brand, we will destroy the BJP,” Uddhav thundered, referring to Raj Thackeray’s latest assembly with deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis.Uddhav additionally hit out on the BJP over Hindi imposition, calling it an try to divide voters earlier than civic polls. “The BJP has no legacy of its own, so they built a giant statue of Sardar Patel, the man who banned the RSS,” he stated.He tore into the Mahayuti manifesto, calling guarantees like Rs 2,100 to ladies and farm mortgage waivers a “fraud,” and accused the federal government of “gifting away” Mumbai’s Dharavi to the Adani Group.Shinde, responding at his Worli occasion, stated Uddhav had no proper to invoke Bal Thackeray. “You abandoned his ideology, tied up with the Congress and NCP, the same people Balasaheb fought all his life.”“You didn’t get even one-third of the votes we did,” Shinde stated. “Your votes came from Congress. Real Shiv Sainiks have said goodbye to you.”He mocked Uddhav’s rally as a “gathering of thieves,” and questioned how Sena (UBT), born in 2022, may declare to have a good time 59 years of Shiv Sena.In a blistering assault, Shinde requested, “Why do you hesitate to call Balasaheb Hindu Hriday Samrat? Why do you ally with those who insult Savarkar and the Ram Mandir?” He even questioned Thackeray’s patriotism, saying, “Are you Indian or a Pakistani agent?”As the 2 rival Senas spar for management over Mumbai, and Marathi voters, Thursday made one factor clear: the legacy of Bal Thackeray stays the battleground, however the war is now private.