‘Modi’s charisma fading’

Mumbai, July 9: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said the BJP’s “one nation, one party” plan would never be accepted and claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma is on the wane.
Addressing a rally at Digras in Yavatmal district, Thackeray referred to the nine MLAs of the Ajit Pawar camp joining the Maharashtra government and questioned the need to “steal” the Nationalist Congress Party if the government enjoys majority as claimed by the BJP.
Digras is the home turf of Shiv Sena MLA and state minister Sanjay Rathod, who is aligned with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. “One nation, one law can be understood. But we will never accept one nation, one party plan of the BJP”, Thackeray said.
He said 40 MLAs of Shiv Sena went to the BJP (last year) along with some independent legislators.
“They (BJP) used to claim that their government (also comprising the Shinde faction of Sena and independents) enjoys a comfortable majority. If this is the case then what was the need to steal the NCP?” he asked.
The former chief minister also alleged the estranged ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wanted Shiv Sena alone but not the Thackerays.
“The BJP has now become a party of riff-raff,” Thackeray said in an apparent reference to the recent induction of nine MLAs of NCP in the Shiv Sena-BJP government including Ajit Pawar. (PTI)