Ch. Sambhajinagar, Dec. 17 -- Maharashtra Social Justice Minister Sanjay Shirsat on Tuesday expressed doubts over whether senior leaders of the Shiv Sena (UBT) would accept the leadership of Aaditya Thackeray, launching a sharp political attack on the Uddhav Thackeray-led party.
Speaking to reporters here, Shirsat, who belongs to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, alleged that the Sena (UBT) and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) were focused only on the civic elections in Mumbai and were ignoring local body polls in the rest of the state.
He claimed that Uddhav Thackeray had abandoned the Hindutva ideology after forming an alliance with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP), and alleged that elections were being contes...