BJP rattled by INDIA, hence trying to change country’s name: Uddhav Thackeray

Thackeray added that the BJP is shaky knowing that they are not coming to power again in 2024 and hence they can go to any length to come back to power and “orchestrate Godhra-like violence or Pulwama-like attack” in the country to win the elections.

“In 2024, the BJP is going to lose the elections and hence the party is rattled… in such situations, as Satyapal Malik… said, the party could either orchestrate Godhra-like riot during the Ram Mandir inauguration or a Pulwama-like attack to win the polls. Satyapal Malik had said that the Pulwama attack was engineered by these people (BJP). It means, for power you can play with the lives of my country’s soldiers…? You can even carry out surgical strikes? Remember wars are fought for the country and not for elections,” Uddhav said.

In April this year, former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik said that after the February 14, 2019, Pulwama attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to stay silent over some alleged lapses that he had he flagged.

Alleging that lakhs of people would be brought to Ayodhya from across the country and then an incident like Godhra violence would be engineered while people go back to their hometowns, Thackeray said, “They can go to any extent.”

Hitting out at the RSS and BJP, Uddhav said they were “stealing” the icons of the country as their party could not create any great leader. “They stole Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose and now they are stealing my father, too, for votes,” he said.