Uddhav rejects AIMIM alliance offer, says it's part of BJP's game plan to defame Shiv Sena's Hindutva agenda

Asserting that Shiv Sena is a Hindutvavadi party Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday rejected AIMIMs offer for an alliance calling it a conspiracy by the opposition BJP to defame the Sena which heads the Maha Vikas Aghahdi MVA governmentThackeray who heads Shiv Sena virtually addressed a meeting of the party MPs and officebearers here wherein he lashed out at BJP the former ally of Sena on Hindutva and other issuesiquestWho has sought an alliance with the AIMIM This is a game plan and conspiracy of the BJP The AIMIM and the BJP have a tacit understanding The BJP has ordered the AIMIM to defame the Shiv Sena to raise questions on Shiv Senas Hindutva Accordingly the AIMIM leaders are making the offer of allianceiquest Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut told reporters quoting ThackerayOn Saturday All India MajliseIttehadul Muslimeen AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel caused a stir stating that his party can ally with the Shiv Senaled MVA to prevent the BJP from coming to power evoking sharp reactions from SenaThe NCP and Congress the other two partners in the MVA had said the AIMIM must prove that it was a likeminded party and not the BJPs BteamRaut a Rajya Sabha MP said the Sena will launch Shiv Sampark Mohim a mass outreach programme on March 22 in 19 districts across Vidarbha and Marathwada regions in Maharashtra on Thackerays orders to dispel the confusion the BJP was trying to create about Sena on various issuesiquestUddhav ji said Shiv Sena will never join forces with the AIMIM The Shiv Sena president also said that his party had never been associated with and will never be associated with those who bow before the grave of Aurangzebiquest Raut saidThe chief minister has asked Shiv Sena leaders to destroy those who are doubting Hindutva propagated by the party he saidSenior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday termed Shiv Sena Janab Sena while responding to AIMIMs alliance offer to the Thackerayled partyResponding to the jibe Thackeray said the Sena always believed that Hindutva was above politicsWhat Janab Sena The Shiv Sena is a staunch Hindutvavadi organisation It was and will remain Hindutvavadi The Shiv Senas Hindutva is not adulterated he saidRaut recalled that the BJP had formed a government with the iquestproPakistan and separatistiquest PDP in JammuKashmir in 2015He sarcastically said that it was a iquestrevolutionary allianceiquest between PDPBJP that gave a new iquestdirectioniquest to the countryiquestNow we will tell the people which is the real Janab Senaiquest Raut said quoting ThackerayIn the meeting Thackeray recalled that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat had stated that those who take positions against Muslims iquestare not true Hindutvavadis and cannot be called Hindus Raut addedThackeray also accused Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari of iquestmurdering democracyiquest by delaying the approval to 12 names sent by the MVA to him to be appointed as MLCs from the Governors quotaAIMIM MP Jaleel had said that AIMIM was always blamed for BJPs victory in polls and dubbed the B team of that partyTo prove this allegation wrong I proposed to Rajesh Tope Maharashtra health minister and NCP leader that we are ready for an alliance he had told a Marathi news channelArguing for the alliance he also said There is no power left in them Shiv Sena to defeat the BJP singlehanded Thats why they need the support of Congress and NCP I propose that lets add another wheel to the threewheeled autorickshaw and make it a comfortable car We have expelled the corporator who had opposed the singing of Vande Mataram in the Aurangabad municipal corporation and he has joined the NCP nowThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever