Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had insulted LK Advani by keeping him waiting about his Lok Sabha seat and asked the party not to write him off because of Narendra Modi, alleged Shiv Sena on Saturday.
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said, “Advani’s name should have been in the first list of BJP Lok Sabha candidates. However, this did not happen. One who built the party and showed it days of glory was kept waiting.”
In an editorial of mouthpiece of Shiv Sena’s Saamana in Mumbai, Thackeray said, “Why should BJP take so long to decide on Advani’s constituency? Doing so is his insult.”
The editorial while targeting BJP for treating Advani unfairly, said that Narendra Modi’s era has begun, but that does not mean it is the end of the Advani era.
The editorial said that the BJP veteran’s political character is without any blot.
The remark of Uddhav Thackeray had came after Advani had on Thursday said he has decided to contest from the Gandhinagar constituency, after he was mollified by party leaders, including Rajnath Singh and Narendra Modi and told he was free to choose between the Gujarat seat and Bhopal.
Uddhav Thackeray said, “Murli Manohar Joshi was asked to contest from Kanpur so that Modi could contest from Varanasi. Rajnath chose safe seat Lucknow instead of Ghaziabad. Jaitley was fielded from Amritsar by removing Navjot Sidhu from fray. Then why was there so much delay in Advani’s case.”
Uddhav said, “The relation that the veteran leader has with the masses is still intact. The Advani episode may seem trivial in comparison with the current political tribulations but one must keep in mind that big accidents can occur through such small incidents.”
He said, “There is no point coming to one’s senses after the time has passed.”
Bureau Report
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