PM Modi going to US instead of resolving crisis in violence-hit Manipur: Uddhav

Shiv Sena UBT president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his scheduled visit to the United States of America Uddhav Thackeray asked why he was going abroad instead of visiting Manipur to resolve the crisis in the violencehit northeastern state reported the PTI on SundayAddressing a statelevel convention of his party the first since the rebellion split Shiv Sena last year he also dared the Bharatiya Janata Partyled central government to implement the Uniform Civil Code UCC in the country according to the PTIOne part of our country is in the grip of violence and Modi hasnt gone there or taken steps to resolve the crisis but is going to America Uddhav Thackeray saidThe PM will be going on a state visit to the US and Egypt from June 20 to 25Thackeray alleged that there have been claims that PM Modi stopped the RussiaUkraine warSo Modi should stop the violence in Manipur and restore peace and then we will believe these claims he addedMore than 100 people have lost their lives in the ethnic violence between Meitei and Kuki community people in Manipur that broke out more than a month agoThe former CM said he will go to Patna on June 23 for the meeting of nonBJP partiesThese is not opposition parties that are meeting there but the parties that are nationalists who love their country and want to protect its independence and democracy he said as per the PTIHe said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had visited him at Matoshree Thackerays personal residence and invited him for the meetingEarlier only BJP leaders used to visit Matoshree but now all parties except BJP have realised the importance of Shiv Sena All parties who love the country should come together to stop the BJP he saidThackeray also questioned why elections were not being held in Kashmir despite the abrogation of Article 370 years agoSo many years have passed since the abrogation of Article 370 but why elections are not being held and why are Hindus unsafe there he asked according to the news agencyArticle 370 which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir was abrogated on August 5 2019 and the erstwhile state was bifurcated into two union territories Jammu and Kashmir and LadakhUddhav Thackeray dared the BJP to bring the UCCHe wondered if it could not implement the ban on cow slaughter in the entire country how can the UCC be implementedThe Law Commission recently said it has decided to look at the need for a UCC afresh and seek the views of stakeholders which include the members of the public and religious organisationsTargetting Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for seeking his comment on the removal of chapters on late Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar and RSS founder K B Hedgewar from school textbooks in Karnataka Uddhav Thackeray referred to the recent advertisement by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and said Devendra Fadnaviss condition is such that he can neither tolerate the insult he is being subjected to nor complain about it either reported the PTIA newspaper advertisement published recently projected CM Shinde as being more popular in the state than his deputy FadnavisReferring to the Karnataka text books row he said many members of the text book board had resigned saying the text books given to students were not the ones approved by them he saidHe said June 20 would be observed as the World Traitors Day a reference to the rebellion led by Eknath Shinde and said their betrayal should not be forgottenThe Shiv Sena split in June last year after Eknath Shinde and 39 other party MLAs rebelled against then Uddhav Thackeray and toppled the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition government of the Sena NCP and CongressShinde later became chief minister with the BJPs support and the Election Commission of India subsequently granted his faction the original party name and bow and arrow symbol while the Thackeray group was named Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb ThackeraySpeaking about it Uddhav Thackeray said the real Shiv Sena belonged to himYou may steal MPs and MLAs but not trusted and loyal supporters Shiv Sena has shown people that it can run the administration efficiently I took the chief ministers post as a challenge and today when I meet people they tell me that they consider me as a family member he said the PTI reportedIf the country needs to be stable should the government be unstable he askedAlliance governments were run well but under the current majority government the country has become unstable Uddhav Thackeray alleged according to the PTINobody can be bigger than the nation he said and criticised CM Shinde for saying this is Modis IndiaThe BJP is on the path of Hitler and our job is to get inspired by revolutionaries he saidOn the controversy over the dialogues in the recentlyreleased film Adipurush based on the Ramayana Thackeray said Bajrang Bali had set BJPs chair of power in Karnataka on fireI want to thank people of Karnataka for resisting these Bahubalis he saidThe Congress last month won the Karnataka Assembly polls by defeatig the BJP which was ruling the state During the poll campaign in that state PM Modi had urged the people of to say Jai Bajrangbali when they cast their vote to punish the Congress for its culture of abuseReferring to the issue of Karnataka text books he said many members of text book board had resigned saying the text books given to students are not the ones approved by themEarlier party leader Aaditya Thackeray asked Sena UBT workers to take a pledge to defeat the Shiv Sena rebels right from panchayat level to the Lok SabhaParty spokesperson Sanjay Raut exhorted the cadres to work for the party s victory on its ownHe referred to the Eknath Shinde and his party leaders as wolves in tiger skinwith PTI inputs