Aaditya Thackeray bats for Uddhav Thackeray as the next CM of Maharashtra  

Uddhav Thackeray is the trusted choice for Maharashtra's Chief Minister, as Aaditya Thackeray criticizes BJP and Mahayuti government.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray is the one person whom Maharashtra trusts today for the Chief Minister’s post, Aaditya Thackeray said on Wednesday (November 6, 2024) at The Hindu Poll Arena, as he made a pitch for his father to be the CM face of the Maha Vikas Aghadi. However, on the same platform, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress president Nana Patole reiterated that the CM candidate will be decided by the high command only after the Assembly election.

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“Every tracker and survey shows that the one person whom Maharashtra trusts today is Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray to take the State forward,” Mr. Aaditya Thackeray said. He accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of breaking Mumbai down.

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“If people of Maharashtra vote for the BJP, they are voting for a stronger Gujarat because in the last 10 years at the Centre and in the last two-and-a-half years in Maharashtra, the BJP has only engaged people in terms of caste and religion... Voting for the BJP means supporting the destruction of Maharashtra. If BJP comes to power, Mumbai’s name will change to Adani City,” he said.

“We have been fighting for the future of Maharashtra, we are dealing with issue-based politics. During our regime, anytime there was a calamity, the farmers were helped directly and not in the embarrassing fashion like the BJP does today by distributing ₹25 or ₹50 cheque. Law and order was never in a crazy situation as it is today, mob lynching was never the case here, people never fought over religion and caste. Today, there are no investments coming into Maharashtra. The pride of Maharashtra is crushed as every big investment and industry is pushed out of Maharashtra and taken to Gujarat. No government in the history of India has been so shameless, corrupt, dysfunctional like the ruling Mahayuti,” Mr. Aaditya Thackeray said.

He also claimed that all the development projects inaugurated by the Mahayuti government were actually introduced by the Uddhav Thackeray government. “The Samruddhi Mahamarg (Nagpur-Mumbai Expressway) was initiated by us and Devendra Fadnavis, who had nothing to do with it is claiming all the credit,” he said.