Reiterating his claim that Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) faction was the ‘phoney’ Shiv Sena, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday dared the ex-Chief Minister to take Hindutva ideologue V.D. Sarvarkar’s name in his speeches while remarking that the real Shiv Sena belonged to Eknath Shinde
Mr. Shah was addressing a rally in Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg while campaigning for Bharatiya Janata Party leader and his cabinet colleague, Union Minister Narayan Rane, the ruling Mahayuti’s candidate for the Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg Lok Sabha seat in the Konkan region.
In his speech, Mr. Shah targeted Mr. Thackeray, who is the longstanding bête noire of Mr. Rane. Mr. Rane is pitted against Sena (UBT) chief and Thackeray loyalist Vinayak Raut, the incumbent MP of Ratnagiri which goes to polls in the third phase on May 7.
