Senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday claimed that the Shiv Sena split in 2022 was with the support of the ‘top leadership’ of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The split in Shiv Sena had led to the fall of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra comprising the Congress and Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party.
Former chief minister Chavan told reporters in Satara that the assembly elections to be held on November 20 are being held in the backdrop of the incident that took place in June 2022, when a section of Shiv Sena MLAs rebelled against the leadership of party president and then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. Was.
Eknath Shinde, who led the rebellion after the split in Shiv Sena, formed the government with the support of BJP and assumed the post of Chief Minister. Prithviraj Chavan said, “These state elections are being held in a special political background. The top leadership of BJP had brought down the MVA government by creating a split in Shiv Sena. This entire move had ‘rajmanyata’ (support from the top leadership).
“This was not done by two or three people at the Mumbai level,” he claimed. There was a careful planning behind this, because the entire machinery of BJP was behind it. It was like a military operation, where MLAs were given security, special aircraft.
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