‘Operation Tiger’ Draws Blood As More Uddhav Thackerey Men Defect
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena continues to bleed due to 'Operation Tiger' after Sindhudurg district Sena chief Sanjay Padte resigned from his post on Tuesday.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena continues to bleed due to 'Operation Tiger' after Sindhudurg district Sena chief Sanjay Padte resigned from his post on Tuesday.
BJP Member of Legislative Council (MLC) Pravin Darekar, who is known to be a confidante of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, said in Mumbai on Friday that not a single MLA will be left in Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, if Aaditya Thackeray begins to monitor the movements of his MPs and MLAs, to prevent them from defecting.
Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Saturday said if INDIA bloc partners -- the Congress and the AAP -- had allied, the outcome of the Delhi assembly elections would have been very different.
Hundreds of local-level workers from the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and Congress, along with prominent Thackeray-led Sena leaders from Washim, Karanja, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, Akola, Bhiwandi, and Kalyan, joined the Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena party in the presence of Shinde himself, on Friday, giving a fillip to 'Operation Tiger'.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray on his birth anniversary, saying he was uncompromising when it came to his core beliefs and always contributed towards enhancing the pride of Indian culture
Raising slogans of 'Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki Jai, the Sainiks trooped onto the landscaped garden, planted saffron flags and uprooted AAHL's new hoarding erected near the huge statue of the great Maratha warrior-king before stomping out of there.
The Shiv Sena scoffed at the BJP, saying "people who threaten the party are light-weight lowly ruffians, who simply just cannot digest the Sena Flag fluttering atop the Sena Bhavan".
"Mamata Banerjee has become the first state to probe the Pegagus snoopgate. Her move is right. It has jolted the Centre and will wake up others," the Sena said.
The letter to Thackeray, recently sent by Pratap Sarnaik, who along with his family is facing the heat of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the past 7 months - demanded the Sena should hug the BJP for the benefit of the party.
He alleged that due to the poll rallies in Bengal, the coronavirus spread rapidly.
