Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party to topple his government.
He has launched a blistering attack on the BJP and said, “Since the day I became the Chief Minister, I have been hearing different dates on the toppling of my government. So far it hasn’t happened… if you have the courage… then go ahead and do it.”
Addressing the party’s annual Dussehra rally from the Veer Savarkar auditorium in Shivaji Park with limited attendance, he said at a time when the country was in the grips of a pandemic, “a peculiar thing is happening”.
He said The Centre’s focus is on toppling governments in non-BJP ruled States. The nation is on the verge of chaos because of the BJP’s unbridled greed for power, he said,
“They (the BJP) have been deceiving their partners. The NDA is finished. They talk of friendship and later stab their friends in the back. They will treat Nitish Kumar in a similar fashion after the assembly polls in Bihar,” he added.
According to Thackarey, “When your foundation stones weaken, you have no ideology, norms of conduct, culture, nothing. Such a government is not going to last long. I again challenge you (the BJP) to topple our government (in Maharashtra) but first protect your government (in Delhi). Because one day, people will look beyond you and say, ‘give us anyone else, but not you’. This thought has already started.”
