Rs 2,000 cr deal to ‘buy’ Shiv Sena title and image, claims Sanjay Raut

Mumbai: Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief Sanjay Raut on Sunday claimed a “deal of Rs 2000 crore” has taken place to this point to “buy” the Shiv Sena get together title and its ‘bow and arrow’ image.

Nevertheless, MLA Sada Sarvankar from the camp led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde dismissed the declare and requested, “Is Sanjay Raut a cashier?” Raut in a tweet claimed the Rs 2,000 crore was a preliminary determine and this was 100 per cent true. He additionally advised reporters {that a} builder near the ruling dispensation shared this data with him. The Rajya Sabha member mentioned his declare was backed by proof which he would disclose quickly.

The Election Fee on Friday recognised the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the true Shiv Sena and ordered allocation of the ‘bow and arrow’ ballot image to it. In a 78-page order on the protracted battle for management of the organisation, the EC allowed the Uddhav Thackeray faction to maintain the “flaming torch” ballot image allotted to it until the completion of the Meeting bypolls within the state. Raut on Sunday mentioned Rs 2,000 crore isn’t a small quantity to “buy” the title Shiv Sena. “The EC’s resolution is a deal,” he alleged. “I’ve dependable data that there was a deal of Rs 2000 crore to get the Shiv Sena title and its image. It is a preliminary determine and is 100 per cent true. Many issues shall be revealed shortly. By no means earlier than this has occurred within the nation’s historical past,” Raut tweeted. To a query on Union Residence Minister Amit Shah’s assault on former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray with “licking soles of these with reverse ideology” jibe, Raut requested, “What’s the current chief minister licking? Maharashtra does not give significance to what Shah says. The present chief minister has no proper to take Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s title.” Shah on Saturday mentioned those that selected to “lick the soles” of individuals with reverse ideologies have discovered which aspect reality was on after the EC declared the faction headed by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde as the true Shiv Sena and gave it the ‘bow and arrow’ image. With out naming Uddhav Thackeray, Shah additionally reiterated there was no settlement on sharing the chief minister’s publish within the run as much as the 2019 Meeting polls.

The Shiv Sena broke its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Occasion after the outcomes of the 2019 Meeting polls have been declared, claiming the latter had reneged on a promise to share the CM’s publish with it. Uddhav Thackeray subsequently teamed up with the Nationalist Congress Occasion and the Congress to steer the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), until it fell in June final 12 months after Shinde rebelled. 

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