Uddhav’s Shiv Sena declares alliance with Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi

By PTI

MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena (UBT) and Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi on Monday introduced an alliance, coinciding with the start anniversary of Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray.

Addressing a joint press convention, Uddhav Thackeray mentioned his grandfather Keshav Thackeray, also called Prabodhankar Thackeray, and Prakash Ambedkar’s grandfather, legendary social icon and jurist B R Ambedkar, had been contemporaries who admired one another and labored to eradicate social evils and dangerous practices.

“Now there are some bad practices in politics and to eradicate them, the inheritors of these two leaders, and people around them, have come together to protect the country’s interest. We are coming together to ensure democracy is alive,” Thackeray mentioned.

Without naming the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is ruling in Maharashtra in addition to on the Centre, Thackeray mentioned the nation is heading in the direction of autocracy.

He additionally dared the powers-that-be to carry Assembly polls in Maharashtra on the earliest.

The state is being dominated by a faction of the Sena that broke away in June final 12 months and the Bharatiya Janata Party, and the Thackeray group has routinely known as it a dispensation of “traitors”.

Speaking concerning the alliance, which has been cast forward of civic polls due in a number of cities, together with Mumbai and Thane, Ambedkar mentioned the approaching collectively of the VBA and Shiv Sena (UBT) was the beginning of the politics of change.

The alliance talks between the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the VBA had been underway for the previous couple of months, with Ambedkar earlier saying it was as much as Thackeray to make the formal announcement.

Ambedkar additionally mentioned the alliance is between the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the VBA for the second, however he hoped different constituents of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party) additionally be part of.

Thackeray mentioned he has not seen opposition from the Congress and NCP to the inclusion of VBA within the MVA.

Last month, the Jogendra Kawade-led People’s Republican Party (PRP), which has a following amongst Dalits within the state, had joined fingers with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena.

The BJP, which is a companion in Shinde’s authorities, is allied with the Republican Party of India (A) of Ramdas Athawale, who can also be a Union minister.

MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena (UBT) and Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi on Monday introduced an alliance, coinciding with the start anniversary of Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray.

Addressing a joint press convention, Uddhav Thackeray mentioned his grandfather Keshav Thackeray, also called Prabodhankar Thackeray, and Prakash Ambedkar’s grandfather, legendary social icon and jurist B R Ambedkar, had been contemporaries who admired one another and labored to eradicate social evils and dangerous practices.

“Now there are some bad practices in politics and to eradicate them, the inheritors of these two leaders, and people around them, have come together to protect the country’s interest. We are coming together to ensure democracy is alive,” Thackeray mentioned.

Without naming the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is ruling in Maharashtra in addition to on the Centre, Thackeray mentioned the nation is heading in the direction of autocracy.

He additionally dared the powers-that-be to carry Assembly polls in Maharashtra on the earliest.

The state is being dominated by a faction of the Sena that broke away in June final 12 months and the Bharatiya Janata Party, and the Thackeray group has routinely known as it a dispensation of “traitors”.

Speaking concerning the alliance, which has been cast forward of civic polls due in a number of cities, together with Mumbai and Thane, Ambedkar mentioned the approaching collectively of the VBA and Shiv Sena (UBT) was the beginning of the politics of change.

The alliance talks between the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the VBA had been underway for the previous couple of months, with Ambedkar earlier saying it was as much as Thackeray to make the formal announcement.

Ambedkar additionally mentioned the alliance is between the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the VBA for the second, however he hoped different constituents of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party) additionally be part of.

Thackeray mentioned he has not seen opposition from the Congress and NCP to the inclusion of VBA within the MVA.

Last month, the Jogendra Kawade-led People’s Republican Party (PRP), which has a following amongst Dalits within the state, had joined fingers with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena.

The BJP, which is a companion in Shinde’s authorities, is allied with the Republican Party of India (A) of Ramdas Athawale, who can also be a Union minister.