Nupur Sharma Prophet Mohammad remarks uddhav thackeray says country embarrassed internationally due to BJP

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday stated that due to the BJP, the nation needed to face an embarrassing state of affairs on the worldwide degree because it was “dropped at its knees and was pressured to apologise” by the Arab international locations over the controversial remarks made by the get together spokesperson on Prophet Mohammad.

Addressing a rally, his first exterior Mumbai after his backbone surgical procedure in November final 12 months, Thackeray additionally assault the BJP saying that whereas inflation is on the rise and the rupee is on a downward slide, there’s a concern to seek out below which mosque there’s a Shivling.

He additionally slammed the Centre over the current focused killings in Kashmir, and stated as a substitute of harassing the leaders of Maharashtra’s ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) by means of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED), raids needs to be performed there.

On the controversial feedback made by former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma for the feedback made towards Prophet Mohammad, he stated, “The Center East and the Arab international locations introduced our nation to its knees and compelled to apologise. What led to this? India has to apologise. What has the nation performed? It’s the BJP and its spokespersons which have dedicated the crime.”

“The phrases spoken by the BJP spokesperson or BJP can’t be the stand of India on any challenge. The phrases of BJP spokesperson used (for Prophet Mohammad) tarnished India’s picture on the Worldwide degree. It broken the picture of my nation and never that of the BJP,” he stated.

“There are political variations between us (Shiv Sena and BJP), however he (Narendra Modi) is our nation’s prime minister. His picture was caught on rubbish bins (in some nation) and we hold seeing it. However why ought to the nation apologise for it when the error is completed by BJP and it is spokesperson,” Thackeray added.

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The BJP on Sunday suspended Nupur Sharma and expelled its Delhi unit media head Naveen Kumar Jindal after a row over their alleged derogatory remarks towards Prophet Mohammad escalated with protests from some Muslim international locations.

Sharma’s feedback, made in a TV debate almost lately, and Jindal’s now-deleted tweets sparked a Twitter pattern calling for a boycott of Indian merchandise in some Arab international locations.

“I need to ask RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat whether or not he had anticipated this sort of behaviour of BJP seen at the moment,” Thackeray stated.

Throughout his speech, he focused the BJP over varied points starting from Hindutva to inflation and the controversial statements made by BJP spokespersons.

“Inflation is rising, rupee is declining, however our fear is Shivling mendacity beneath which mosque, what’s below the Taj Mahal, what’s below the Gyanvapi masjid,” he stated at a rally that was attended by the highest leaders of the get together.

“What have we performed to say that we’ve got abandoned Hindutva. Let’s debate what Shiv Sena has performed for Hindutva and BJP has performed for it,” he stated.

He stated had his father late Sena founder Bal Thackeray not taken the duty and stated that if the Shiv Sainiks had demolished Babri he was happy with it, or had he not backed Kashmiri Pandits and “roared” when Amarnath Yatra was below assault, then would BJP have risen to energy within the title of Hindutva.

Asserting that the Sena was not “hole Hindutvavdi” to take classes of Hindutva from the BJP, Thackeray recalled that through the Ayodhya motion, there was slogan ‘Whoever who thinks in regards to the welfare of Hindus will rule the nation’ and requested whether or not the BJP which is in energy serious about the welfare of Hindus.

He additionally welcomed the statements made by RSS chief, who stated that there was no want to seek out Shivling in each mosque.

He additionally attacked Impartial MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana, who had been arrested in April after they insisted on reciting Hanuman Chalisa exterior Thackeray’s non-public residence ‘Matoshree’.

“When you’ve got the heart then go to Kashmir and recite Hanuman Chalisa. Our Hindutva isn’t of impotent. If you’re a person, then shield the Kashmir Pandits. When you’ve got the heart then go there,” he stated.

“It makes one indignant that the Kashmiri Pandits are leaving the Valley and nobody is able to communicate for them. Did any single spokesperson of BJP communicate on this challenge,” he requested.

BJP by no means noticed Hindu festivals whereas doing agitations or doing Bharat Bandh as a result of they indulged in politics alone. However late Shiv Sena supremo by no means did this.

Earlier when petrol costs went up even by seven paise, former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee as soon as went to Parliament in a bullock cart. We’re searching for that BJP at the moment, he stated.

Targetting senior BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis for his comment that whereas he was there when the Babri construction was pulled down in Ayodhya, no person from the Shiv Sena was current there.

“Sena earlier was talking to make a particular regulation and assemble Ram mandir. However you did not present that braveness. Judgement got here from the court docket, so the Ram Mandir (in Ayodhya) is being erected, that too with individuals’s cash,” Thackeray stated.

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