21 April,2025 04:07 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Sanjay Nirupam mocked Uddhav Thackeray over the rumored UBT-MNS alliance. File pic
Amid the floating speculation of a possible alliance between the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Nirupam mocked at Uddhav, claiming the party is 'so weak' that it either needs to team up with MNS or 'compromise with Muslim votes,' reported the ANI.
"If both the brothers (Uddhav and Raj Thackeray) and their parties want to unite, we do not have anything to do. Today, the condition of Uddhav Thackeray and his party is that sometimes they have to join hands with Congress to win elections and sometimes compromise with Muslim votes. Today, they have become so weak that they have to give a proposal to join hands with MNS," Sanjay Nirupam told ANI in Mumbai.
Nirupam accused Uddhav Thackeray of turning his faction into 'Muslim League'.
He questioned whether the MNS would consider aligning with a party that has openly opposed the Waqf Act.
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"Now, MNS and Raj Thackeray have to decide whether they are going with Uddhav Thackeray or not. Thackeray has made his party as a Muslim League, do they (MNS) want to go with that? We have that question to MNS," he told ANI.
"Now the situation is such that Uddhav Thackeray calls his MPs atleast five times, telling them to speak against the Waqf Act in Parliament and outside it. Just like how he organises protests against the Waqf Act, does Raj Thackeray want to go with such people?" he added.
Sanjay Nirupam said that they have no objections to the potential alliance, but their major concerns is the intent behind joining hands, especially in the name of Maharashtra's interests.
"We have no such problem with them joining hands, but yes, we are questioning them on how they bent the knee in front of Muslims. How they are saying that they will join hands for the good of Maharashtra, so what did they do in the last 2 years?" Nirupam said, according to the ANI.
On 19th April, Uddhav Thackeray, during an event organised by the party's trade union wing, expressed his willingness to unite with Raj Thackeray by keeping all the issues aside for the sake of the Marathi language and culture.
(With inputs from ANI)
