Shiv Sainik would one day become Maharashtra CM: Uddhav Thackeray

This time, the Sena is contesting on 124 out of the total 288 constituencies in alliance with the BJP, which has ominated candidates for 150 seats. The rest of the seats will be allotted to smaller allies from the BJP’s quota.

“One day, a Shiv Sainik would become the chief inister of Maharashtra, it is a promise I made to my father and Sena founder late Balasaheb,” Uddhav Thackeray said in the
interview, a part of which was released on Monday.

The Sena chief’s son Aaditya Thackeray is entering electoral politics from Worli constituency in Mumbai, and the October 21 state polls are being seen as a litmus test for the party, whether it can bank on the young leader’s popularity to win the public mandate.

“Aaditya contesting the Assembly election does not necessarily mean I am retiring from active politics. I am very much around,” he said.

“I am not going to do farming,” he said sarcastically, in an apparent reference to NCP leader Ajit Pawar who recently
resigned as an MLA and advised his son to prefer farming or business over politics.

He also claimed that in 2014, when the Sena and BJP snapped ties ahead of the Assembly polls, his party put a
check on the ‘Modi wave’ which had swept the country.

“There is no point in discussing the reasons behind the BJP and Sena contesting (the 2014 polls) separately. It
was a war. There was a ‘wave’ at the national level, but we put a check on it in Maharashtra,” he said.

“Despite being in power, we have always raised voice for the cause of the common man,” he added.

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