BJP broke Shiv Sena, but we are not finished: Uddhav Thackeray

Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said his party was not finished off even though the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP broke it by taking away its legislators reported the PTIThe Sena UBT will bury the BJP instead he said speaking at a rally at Ausa in central Maharashtras Latur districtThe BJP broke the Shiv Sena by taking away our MLAs and MPs but it does not mean that the Shiv Sena was finished On the contrary the Shiv Sena will bury the BJP and go ahead Uddhav Thackeray said as per the PTIAccording to the news agecny former Maharashtra chief minister said that the BJP leaders have no courage to visit regions like Jammu and Kashmir Manipur and Arunachal PradeshHe also claimed without elaborating further that his father and Sena founder late Bal Thackeray had saved Narendra Modi when late BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee was about to sideline ModiHis party was winning elections even when Modi was not in the picture when it was not benefitting as a BJP ally from Modis popularity he saidOne of our traitors leader of Eknath Shindeled Shiv Sena criticized me for moving around the state like I was the CM But empty chairs are being seen at the chief ministers rallies while my public meetings are drawing crowds Uddhav Thackeray saidCountering Union home minister Amit Shahs reported statement that the Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA alliance of the Shiv Sena UBT Congress and NCP SP was a punctured auto rickshaw Thackeray said the BJP runs on wheels of corruptionHe also said that in the past the Ausa assembly constituency was given to the BJP when it was in alliance with the undivided Sena at Devendra Fadnaviss request and appealed to the people to defeat the current BJP MLA Abhimanyu Pawar in the coming assembly electionsPolitical power was being misused and there was autocracy in the country which had to be removed Uddhav Thackeray saidMeanwhile Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday tried to corner the government over the time extension asked by the State Bank of India SBI to give details of those who had bought electoral bonds reported the PTIUddhav Thackeray said that the banks promptly come out with all information of farmers when there is a default or delay in loan repayment but in the electoral bond issue lenders are asking for time to extract details as per the PTIwith PTI inputs