Uddhav Thackeray at MVA rally: Vote for anyone except this govt

The rally was attended by top MVA leaders from all three parties with NCP MLA and Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar too sharing the stage.

Uddhav at MVA rally: Vote for anyone except this govt

Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray speaks during the Maha Vikas Aghadi rally in Nagpur on Sunday. (PTI)

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Giving a call to “join the battle to safeguard the Constitution and the freedom of the nation”, former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday appealed to voters to press the voting machine’s button to bring down the government, without thinking about the alternative.

“The country should be free. The revolutionaries fought against the British and went to the gallows to win Independence… Now you have to only press the button and decide that those who committed injustice won’t be given the chair. Anybody would come (after the elections), but not this (government),” Thackeray said. He was speaking at the second Vajramooth rally of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi at Nagpur.

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Thackeray’s statement comes a day before his meeting with senior Congress leader K C Venugopal in Mumbai. The leaders of opposition parties have been meeting in recent weeks to strategise regarding the general elections of 2024 to take on the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a bid to keep the flock together, the opposition has been maintaining that defeating Modi remain priority and his successor can be decided later.

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The rally was attended by top MVA leaders from all three parties with NCP MLA and Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar too sharing the stage.

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Pawar had earlier dismissed any reports about him joining hands with the BJP and said that it was only the media which was publishing such reports.

Though Pawar did not speak at the rally, former Home minister Anil Deshmukh and NCP’s state president Jayant Patil addressed the gathering.

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Former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and state Congress president Nana Patole also spoke at the rally. Chavan slammed the central government for “siding with industrialist Gautam Adani on the Hindenburg report”.

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