Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has said the BJP would have used all means, including splitting the Congress and the NCP, to form the government in Maharashtra in 2014 if his party had not supported it.
In a fresh attack on his ally, Thackeray said the BJP had “duped” the people of the country who had voted for it in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
He also needled the BJP over its allegations of corruption against the Congress and the previous UPA government, saying if corruption “really” has taken place, it should be proved rather than just “slinging mud at others”.
“Had we not participated in the government, the BJP, like it goes on winning states using all means,…like it broke the Congress and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Tripura, the same way, the BJP would have split the Congress and the NCP to form the government in Maharashtra,” Thackeray said.
“Instead of letting that happen, I let my people gain experience of working in the government,” he said, in the second part of his interview to Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’. (PTI)
