Amit Shah Says Uddhav Thackeray Leading 'Aurangzeb Fan Club' In Maharashtra, Calls Sharad Pawar 'Head of Corruption'

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray saying he sits with “those who sought clemency for 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon”.

Addressing the BJP’s state convention in Pune, Shah said, “Uddhav Thackeray is sitting with those who sought clemency for 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon.”

“…This Aurangzeb Fan Club cannot ensure the security of the country. Who is this Aurangzeb Fan Club? It is (Maha Vikas) Aghadi and Uddhav Thackeray is the leader of the Aurangzeb Fan Club. Uddhav Thackeray who calls himself Balasaheb’s heir, you are sitting with those who fed biryani to Kasab… Uddhav Thackeray is sitting in the lap of those who support PFI…You should be ashamed…” he added.

Amit Shah also hit out at NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and dubbed him the leader of corruption in the country and slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for displaying arrogance despite loss in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

He said the BJP-led Mahayuti will do better in the Maharashtra assembly polls than what the party did in the 2014 and 2019 editions.

“Sharad Pawar institutionalized corruption,” the senior BJP leader said in Pune.

Asserting that people of India gave Prime Minister Narendra Modi their stamp of approval in recent Lok Sabha elections, Shah said the arrogance of Rahul Gandhi will be crushed after “we win forthcoming assembly polls in Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Haryana”.

Praising BJP workers, Shah said they should not get perturbed by the Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra (where the party’s tally went down from 23 in 2019 to nine in 2024), adding that they could revive themselves in the state polls by taking the good work and welfare schemes of the government to the masses.

“Every BJP worker from Maharashtra has taken efforts in the party’s victory. The BJP-led alliance will perform better in ensuing Maharashtra assembly polls than it did in 2019 and 2014. We will work harder and set new goals for ourselves. The saffron must rise again in Maharashtra,” Shah asserted.

He praised Pune as the city of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and the land that gave the country the slogan “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it”.