Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray launched a scathing attack on rebel party MPs on Monday amid buzz over ‘Operation Tiger’. Thackeray accused the six rebel MPs of prioritising personal “greed” over their political commitments.
The lawmakers who are willing to switch sides have abandoned their ideologies as they were elected through the backing of the Congress and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), Aaditya Thackeray said in a X post on Monday.
Thackeray said the actions of rebel MPs show that their loyalty and reputation are “for sale” and that the government uses “public money” for political gains.
“To the greedy MPs who have hopped over, you only prove the following, stronger than before: 1) Your loyalty, your reputation is for sale, shamelessly 2) The government is biased and uses public money, politically, as funds,” Aaditya Thackeray said.
“All of the ones that are jumping over now were elected on the platforms of the MVA and the INDIA, against the NDA. All of them had leaders from @ShivSenaUBT, @INCIndia and @NCPspeaks campaigning for them- each one asked for rallies from leaders of all parties and allies. They can’t even go on their nonsensical rant of “moved away from this and allied to that” and did this and that. The voters voted against the NDA candidates and for INDIA in your constituencies and for all it stands for. Just accept that your greed got you to ditch all of it overnight, shamelessly,” he said.
The six MLAs who are likely to cross over to Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are -Sanjay Dina Patil, Sanjay Deshmukh, Sanjay Jadhav, Bhausaheb Wakchaure, Nagesh Patil Ashtikar and Omprakash Raje Nimbalkar.
Among the six, two MPs – Nagesh Patil Ashtikar and Omprakash Raje Nimbalkar – have confirmed their switch to Shiv Sena.
They had skipped the Sena (UBT) parliamentary party meeting in Delhi on June 17. This had fuelled the buzz that they were all set to cross over to Shiv Sena.