First MLA Abdul Sattar from Shinde group ready to give resign?; Direct challenge to Aditya Thackeray

Aditya Thackeray) started the Shivsamvad Yatra to strengthen the organization. Speaking from Aurangabad during this yatra, Aditya Thackeray had challenged the rebel MLAs to resign and face the elections again. Now Abdul Sattar (Abdul Sattar) has answered Aditya Thackeray’s challenge. I am ready to resign and re-contest, only if Mr. Shinde gives permission. Sattar has replied to Aditya Thackeray in such words that we will know who is a traitor and what is loyalty.

Sattar said that I am ready to resign and contest the election again, only if Mr. Shinde gives permission. Then you will know who is a traitor and what is loyalty. I don’t want to go to Matoshree. I request Aditya Thackeray to come to my constituency. Sattar also warned that he had not come before but come now.

What was the need for betrayal when everything was going well? What exactly happened? This illegitimate government is going to collapse. But while all this was happening, I had 15 MLAs with me in the assembly. We all sat together. He was temporarily sitting in front. When they were sitting in front we looked at them with pride and the traitors sitting in front could not meet our eyes.

Their true masks are now torn. Until now, they were saying that they have respect for Thackeray and Shiv Sena, but look at their statements yesterday and today. Now they have started giving threats. Why did they sell their faith? What exactly did we do wrong? Aditya Thackeray asked this question to Eknath Shinde and his MLAs.

Shiv Sena leader and former Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray on Thursday said he is setting out to build the party organisation afresh, and added that the current government in the state led by Eknath Shinde would collapse as it was formed "illegally".

He was speaking at the launch of his three-day 'Shiv Samvad Yatra' in Bhiwandi town in the Thane district, where he received a rousing welcome from his supporters.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government comprising Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress collapsed last month after Mr Shinde raised a banner of revolt against the Sena leadership with a majority of party MLAs. A day after Mr Thackeray resigned as the chief minister on June 29, Mr Shinde took the oath of the top post with BJP's Devendra Fadnavis as his deputy.

He challenged the rebel MLAs to resign and face the elections again.

"Shinde rebelled when my father (Uddhav Thackeray) was unwell. They (Sena rebels) were given an opportunity in the state cabinet, but they betrayed us and deserted us. Those who left us are not Shiv Sainiks. They are traitors...See what is the condition of the rebel MLAs, who have to be brought into buses for voting as they are kept in hiding," he said."Our only mistake was that we could not play politics and hence we had to face this situation. We did not trouble those who were against us," Mr Thackeray added.

He, however, said if at all the party rebels want to return, the doors of 'Matoshree' (the personal residence of Thackerays) are always open for them.