Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday accused the Shiv Sena of sacrificing its founder Bal Thackeray’s principles for power, reported The Hindu.
“Uddhav Thackeray and the Shiv Sena have jettisoned all of Balasaheb’s principles by forming an unnatural alliance with the Congress and the NCP [Nationalist Congress Party] in Maharashtra,” Shah said at the inauguration of a private medical college in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district.
The home minister also mocked the Maha Vikas Aghadi government – comprising the Congress, the Shiv Sena and the NCP – comparing the coalition to a “three-wheeled autorickshaw”. Shah said that the three wheels of this autorickshaw were trundling aimlessly in three different directions.
“This [Maha Vikas Aghadi government] is an unholy alliance made by betraying the people’s mandate which was for a Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena government led by Devendra Fadnavis,” he said, according to PTI.
The home minister alleged that…