Use of central agencies against kin of MVA leaders shows BJP's 'inhuman face': Shiv Sena

The Shiv Sena on Monday said it can understand the use of central agencies for targeting leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA government in Maharashtra but claimed the harassment of their family members shows the inhuman face of the BJPPeople normally say they have lost faith in a government But in Maharashtra it is the opposite The BJP has become a butt of jokes in the state an editorial in the Sena mouthpiece Saamana saidThe BJP uses the CBI Enforcement Directorate IT Income Tax department and the NCB Narcotics Control Bureau for its own agenda Thackeray exposed these attacks being made through the ED and CBIthe attacks are like using Shikhandi as a shield it saidBhishma the patriarch of the Kauravas and Pandavas in the epic Mahabharata was eliminated with the help of ShikhandiThe Shiv Sena further hit out at the BJP and the Centre claiming they dont face questions and finish those who question themAlso Read Central investigating agencies working as contract killers for party in power in Delhi Sanjay RautThe BJP and its government at the Centre do not believe in democracy Constitution law and order They dont accept chief ministers of opposition parties This new phenomenon in politics speaks volumes about the mindset Such things come to their mind only due to smoking up of low quality weed the edit saidAfter the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls the Sena parted ways with longterm ally BJP over the issue of sharing the chief ministerial post The Shiv Sena subsequently tiedup with the NCP and Congress to form MVA government led by Uddhav ThackerayThe Marathi daily said NCP president Sharad Pawar had clarified the circumstances under which Shiv Sena head Uddhav Thackeray became the chief ministerTargeting former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil the Sena said by attacking Thackeray on becoming the CM of the state they were only venting out their frustrationIn his annual Dussehra rally last week Thackeray launched a scathing attack against the BJP saying hunger for power was like drug addiction and challenged it to topple his coalition government which will soon complete two yearsThe editorial in the Marathi publication said the BJP should show the guts to accept the challenge thrown by ThackerayAttacks on the Maha Vikas Aghadi government leaders can be wellunderstood But the harassment of their family members shows the inhuman face of the BJP the editorial claimedAfter Thackerays Dussehra rally last week Fadnavis had hit back claiming the Shiv Senaled MVA government was the most corrupt in the history of the state with extortion being its only agendaThis is a government formed through dishonesty and I feel that respected Uddhavji should now accept that he had ambitions of becoming a chief minister which he fulfilled In politics having ambitions is not wrong But if you wanted to keep the word you could have made senior Sena leaders Diwakar Raote Subhash Desai or Eknath Shinde a CM Fadnavis had saidThis 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