I am not Modi critic, but will keep speaking my mind where I don't agree: Uddhav

April 22, 2018 09:23

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said he was not a detractor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but"will always speak up when he doesn't approve of something.

"I am not a critic of Modi, but I will speak on the issues where I don't agree (with Modi government's decisions)," he said.

Sena, ally of the BJP in the Centre and in Maharashtra, continually takes swipe at the the prime minister and his party, especially through its mouthpiece Saamana.

Speaking at the release of a Marathi book, Gof, penned by Sena's Rajya Sabha MP and Saamana executive editor Sanjay Raut in Mumbai, Thackeray said his father (late Bal Thackeray) had taught him to speak his mind.

RSS leader Sunil Deodhar, who is credited for the BJP's victory in Tripura assembly elections, was present at the function.

"If we come together as Hindus, there will be no division of votes. But if"there are differences of opinion and views, then the question arises who is the real Hindu," said Thackeray.

"You (Deodhar) have come back to Maharashtra after 28 years, if you hadn't left, this state would have fared better," the Sena chief said.

"You gave your sweat and blood to install a BJP chief minister in Tripura, but what should one do when he makes laughable comments," Thackeray said, in apparent reference to Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb's widely reported comment that `Internet existed during the Mahabharat era'. -- PTI

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