Following senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan’s exit from the Congress, Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had low self-confidence ahead of the Lok Sabha election, questioning their need to relentlessly poach leaders from Opposition parties.
While Mr. Chavan has yet to announce his future course of action, Mr. Thackeray implied that the Congress leader would join the BJP.
Addressing a rally at Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad), Mr. Thackeray, the Chief Minister of the erstwhile Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in which Mr. Chavan had served as a Cabinet Minister, hit out at Mr. Modi’s claim that the BJP and its allies would cross 400 seats in the upcoming General Election.
