Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray claimed that in 2019, during Devendra Fadnavis’ tenure as Maharashtra Chief Minister, Fadnavis had expressed his intention to groom Thackeray’s son, Aaditya Thackeray, as the next CM of the state, as part of a power-sharing agreement between the two parties.
Thackeray also said that the senior BJP leader had told him that he would move to the Centre in the next two to three years.
Addressing a rally in Dharavi on Saturday, the former Maharashtra CM claimed that Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who was the then BJP chief, had come to Matoshree, the private residence of the Thackerays, to seek an alliance with Shiv Sena (undivided). He added that he was assured that the post of chief minister would be shared for 2.5 years between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Sena-undivided.
“At that time, Fadnavis was made to sit outside the room of late Bal Thackeray while the two leaders (Shah and Thackeray) discussed modalities,” he claimed.
“Later, Devendra Fadnavis told me, Uddhav Ji, I will groom Aaditya for 2.5 years. We can make him CM after 2.5 years. I told him (Fadnavis) that he (Aaditya) is just starting his electoral career. Do not put anything like this in his mind,” Thackeray said.
Uddhav Thackeray also claimed that when he asked Fadnavis how a senior leader like him would work under Aaditya, Fadnavis said he “would move to Delhi”.
Uddhav has ‘lost his mind’: Fadnavis
Reacting to Thackeray’s claim, Fadnavis, the current Deputy Chief Minister in the Mahayuti government of BJP, alongside Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde and NCP led by Ajit Pawar, stated that Thackeray had “lost his mind.”
“Uddhav Thackeray has become ‘bhramishta’ (delirious). He is hallucinating. Initially, he said Amit Shah promised him a chief ministership in some room. Now he says I promised to make his son a CM. To hide one falsehood, another lie is being told,” Fadnavis said.
However, he admitted to having told Uddhav Thackeray that his son, Aaditya, should be groomed as he would eventually take control of the party (Shiv Sena) one day.
Fadnavis further asserted that he wouldn’t even make Aaditya a minister, let alone a chief minister.
“Leave alone making him (Aaditya) a chief minister, I wouldn’t make him even a minister. He (Aaditya) became a minister later (when MVA was in power) which landed the Shiv Sena (UBT) in its current situation today,” he stated.
(With inputs from PTI)
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