MUMBAI: Union minister Narayan Rane had tried to defame Aaditya Thackeray after the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput and even BJP MLAs had said they were against this kind of defamation, said Deepak Kesarkar, chief spokesperson of the Eknath Shinde group, in statements that seemed aimed at isolating the BJP politician.
Kesarkar added on Friday that Uddhav Thackeray had decided to quit as CM after a meeting with PM Narendra Modi in June 2021, but the move was scuttled after 12 BJP MLAs were suspended in the assembly and Rane was inducted into the Union cabinet.