NEW DELHI:

Shiv Sena

(UBT) chief

Uddhav Thackeray

accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of engaging in “

power jihad

” by breaking

political parties

to remain in government.
Thackeray’s remarks came on Saturday in Pune as he countered Union minister

Amit Shah

‘s comment dubbing him the head of the “

Aurangzeb Fan Club

.”
Thackeray further accused Shah of being the “political descendent” of

Ahmad Shah Abdali

, the Afghan ruler who defeated the Marathas in the battle of Panipat.

Thackeray referred to the split in the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) while accusing the BJP of breaking parties.
“If Muslims are with us after we explain to them our

Hindutva

, then we are (according to the BJP) the Aurangzeb Fan Club. Then what you are doing is power jihad,” Thackeray said while addressing party workers in Pune.
Thackeray criticized the Eknath Shinde government over the ‘Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin’ scheme, accusing it of attempting to bribe voters by giving “revdis” (freebies).