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MVA GOVERNMENT WAS INDECISIVE ON DAWOOD ISSUE, ALLEGES CM SHINDE

MVA GOVERNMENT WAS INDECISIVE ON DAWOOD ISSUE, ALLEGES CM SHINDE

Noting that there must be “big reason” for 50 MLAs to leave a ruling alliance, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said that the previous MVA government which had Congress and Shiv Sena as constituents could not take a decision when matters concerning Hindutva or Veer Savarkar or that on Mumbai blasts and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim came up.

In an exclusive interview with ANI, Shinde said, “Shiv Sena, BJP contested 2019 assembly elections together but the government was formed with Congress, NCP. Due to this, whenever issues of Hindutva came up, matters relating to Savarkar came up, Mumbai blast issue came up, Dawood Ibrahim issue came up and other issues when (these) came, we were unable to take a decision.” He was referring to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik who was arrested by the ED in February this year in connection with a money-laundering probe linked to the activities of fugitive gangster Dawood and his aides.

Uddhav Thackeray earlier referred to the incident when in the Assembly Devendra Fadnavis asked Shinde to stop talking. “But how will it stop. The brakes of the autorickshaw failed. Earlier, the BJP used to call the MVA government a three-wheeler government but now the person who drives a three-wheeler is running the government,” Uddhav had said.

To this, Shinde gave an appropriate reply, “(Auto) rickshaw has left the Mercedes behind because this government is for common people, this is a government to give justice to every section. We will perform in a way that every constituent, everyone feels it is my government, it will work for me. This will be the difference.”

He said they had decided to take further “Hindu Hriday Samrat Balasaheb Thackeray’s ideology. “We have decided to take our Hindu Hriday Samrat Balasaheb Thackeray’s Hindutva ideology, his role further. If 50 MLAs take such a step, then there must be a big reason for it. Nobody takes such a big decision for small reason. Even a corporator does not take such a decision. Why did 50 MLAs take such a decision? There was a need to think about this,” Shinde said. He also said that “they are not doing anything illegal” and have followed all constitutional steps for the formation of new government in the state.

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