Last update:
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aditya Thackeray met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal a few days after his loss in the Delhi assembly elections, giving a message to strengthen the fight for free and fair elections.
AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal met the Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray and other Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders. (AI)
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aditya Thackeray met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal a few days after his loss in the Delhi assembly elections, giving a message to strengthen the fight for free and fair elections.
On a tornado tour in the national capital, Aditya Thackeray also met the party MPs amid the report of dissatisfaction in the ranks and some leaders planned to join the Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde.
He met Gandhi late on Wednesday and called former Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal, whose party lost in the last week’s assembly elections on Thursday.
“Is there any difference between the BJP and the Election Commission (EC)? … I do not even know where my vote goes. EVM (Electronic Voting Machine) and VVPATS (Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail Need. “Aditya Thackeray said.
After calling Kejriwal, Aditya Thackeray described the meeting as a gesture of friendship.
He told reporters after the meeting, “Governments keep coming but the relationship continues. We met Kejriwal as a gesture of friendship. However, our democracy is not independent and fair. The elections are not free and fair,” he Told reporters after the meeting.
He was accompanied by party MPs Sanjay Raut, Arvind Sawant, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Sanjay Dina Patil and Bhusaheb Wakchur, others.
The Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP) had accused irregularities in the conduct of last year’s Maharashtra assembly elections, claiming that the state had more registered voters than its total adult population.
39 lakh new voters were added in the May and November assembly elections between Lok Sabha elections, the three parties who formed the Maha Vikas Aghdi (MVA) group.
“We believe that we are in a democracy, but perhaps we rob democracy. This is a showing democracy,” Aditya Thackeray said, “Voters and EVM fraud” to opposition parties, rally on issues of “voter and EVM fraud”. ” Needed
Aditya Thackeray’s meeting with Gandhi also came against the backdrop of Rumble within the MVA after NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, which was topped by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Shinde, the MVA government led by Udhav Thackeray.
In 2022, Shinde went with the majority of Shiv Sena MLAs with the then figures to beat the MVA government.
Shinde became the Chief Minister with the support of the BJP and later gained control over the Shiv Sena.
The Mahayut alliance of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by BJP, Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar won the November assembly election, which dealt with a body blow for MVA, which was expecting an encolor by looking at the state almost in the Lok Sabha. . Poll.
Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray -led faction termed Shinde as a “traitor” and was surprised to see that Sharad Pawar established him by Mahadji Shinde Rashtra Gaurav Puruskar by NGO Sarhad in Pune.
Aditya Thackeray also held a meeting of Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs, which in the party rank, and some leaders tried to join the Shiv Sena or BJP.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and a syndicated news agency has been published from feed – PTI,