Uddhav Thackeray on Friday broke silence after he resigned as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. During a press conference, Thackeray said that there would have been no Maha Vikas Aghadi government if there was a Shiv Sena CM for 2.5 years during Sena-BJP alliance.
Thackeray's statement comes a day after Shiv Sena rebel MLA Eknath Shinde was in an unexpected twist sworn-in as the chief minister while BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis as the Deputy CM.
The Shiv Sena chief also urged the new government to not make Metro car shed at Aarey citing environmental issues.
Notably, in their first cabinet meeting held hours after coming to power, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputy Devendra Fadnavis took the first step towards overturning the previous Thackeray government's decision of relocating the proposed Mumbai Metro Line-3 car shed from Aarey Colony.
"Don't project anger for me on Mumbaikars. Don't change the proposal for the metro shed. Don't toy with the environment of Mumbai," Thackeray said.
Further commenting on the formation of new govt, he said, "The manner in which Govt has been formed and a so-called Shiv Sena worker has been made CM, I had said the same to Amit Shah."
"This could've been done respectfully. The Shiv Sena was officially with you at that time."
"This CM (Eknath Shinde) is not a Shiv Sena CM," he said.
Earlier in the day, Sanjay Raut also said, " a new government in Maharashtra under Eknath Shinde has been formed by the BJP with a group of MLAs that split the party, and asserted that the Sena is where the Thackerays are.
Taking a dig at Deputy Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Raut said had the BJP stuck to its word in 2019, it could have had the CM's post for two-and-a-half years and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) experiment involving his party, the NCP and the Congress would not have taken place.
Shinde was on Thursday sworn in as the 20th chief minister of Maharashtra, while Fadnavis took oath as the deputy chief minister, just 24 hours after the collapse of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government led by Thackeray.
