Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde has launched a fresh attack against the present Maharashtra government and his party. Launching a fresh attack on Shiv Sena leadership, dissident leader Eknath Shinde on Sunday wondered how Bal Thackeray’s party could support the people having a direct connection with Dawood Ibrahim who was responsible for killing innocent Mumbaikars by triggering bomb blasts.
Shinde further said that he took the step and the rebel MLAs were to save the soul of Bal Thackeray’s Shiv Sena and protest against such connections in the party. He also said that he doesn’t care for his life when it comes to saving Shiv Sena.
Though Shinde did not specify the name of any political leader in his tweets, Shinde’s tweets on Sunday night are an apparent reference to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) minister Nawab Malik who is in jail in connection with a money laundering case allegedly involving relatives of Dawood Ibrahim. The tweets are also seen as a reply to Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut who had termed Shinde and other rebel MLAs “bodies without souls” which will be sent to the morgue.
Shinde had tagged his tweets to Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s Twitter handle.”We have learned a lesson on whom to trust….These are the bodies whose souls have died. Their mind is dead….40 bodies will come from Assam and be sent directly to the morgue for postmortem,” Raut said in an apparent reference to the number of MLAs camping in Guwahati with Shinde while addressing Sena cadres.
A sizable number of Shiv Sena workers on Sunday bucked the trend seen over the past few days in Thane district, a bastion of rebel MLA Eknath Shinde, by taking out rallies in support of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. Similar rallies, which were attended by hundreds of men and women workers carrying flags and shouting pro-Thackeray slogans, were also held in Vasai, Virar, and some other parts of Palghar, also a stronghold of Shinde.
