Jayant Patil: Raj Thackeray targeting NCP at BJP’s behest: Jayant Patil

Maharashtra minister and state NCP president Jayant Patil on Wednesday accused MNS chief Raj Thackeray of attacking the NCP and its president Sharad Pawar on the BJP’s behest. Patil was speaking to reporters at Mangaon in Raigad, a day after Thackeray hit out at NCP leaders at a rally in neighbouring Thane.

The opposition BJP in Maharashtra harbours a grudge towards Pawar because the NCP chief together with Shiv Sena and Congress shaped the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities within the state, he stated.

“The BJP at all times expresses its grudge towards Pawar saheb. The BJP has given such a duty (of criticising Pawar) to totally different individuals. He (Thackeray) is the one who takes duty and he now appears to have taken this new duty,” Patil claimed.

Thackeray, whereas criticising Patil throughout the rally on Tuesday, had talked about the latter’s first title as “jant” (Marathi phrase for germs).

Hitting again, Patil stated Thackeray was a scholar of Balmohan Vidya Mandir college in Dadar and subsequently “is okay with grammar”.

“However nonetheless, he made the error. So, we have to ask the individuals at Balmohan Vidya Mandir if they will maintain classes for the individuals (former college students) who’ve forgotten grammar,” the NCP chief quipped.

NCP spokesperson Clyde Crasto claimed the event plan of the MNS has “disappeared just like the BJP’s ‘vikas’ (growth) plank”.

Thackeray had on Tuesday accused NCP chief Sharad Pawar of doing politics of caste.

He had additionally sought to know why the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the members of the family of NCP chief and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, however not the latter’s cousin Supriya Sule (Sharad Pawar’s daughter).