A letter from rebel MLA Sanjay Shirsat, representing Aurangabad West constituency, to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday slamming the coterie surrounding the latter is a repeat of historical events for the party and also an indication that things have remained the same despite periodic shocks to the party in the last three decades.
Mr. Shirsat, in his letter, said, “We want to urge the people around you, who were never through voters but went Legislative Council or Rajya Sabha because of us, to allow and let us meet you. We never had a direct access to your official residence ‘Varsha’ despite us being the party MLAs. Usually the Chief Minister meets people on sixth floor of Mantralaya, but we never had the opportunity because you never went to the State Secretariat.”
Mr. Shinde’s rebellion repeats the history for the party as he retweeted Mr. Shirsat’s letter saying this was the ‘sentiment’ of MLAs. The letter alleged that ‘middlemen’ used to call us to meet Mr. Thackeray after numerous requests. “We were kept waiting outside the gate of Varsha bungalow for several hours and these ‘middlemen’ never attended our call. We used to leave without meeting anyone,” the letter said, asking why were they insulted in this manner?
