Delhi Violence: Shiv Sena Slams Amit Shah For Inaction

Mumbai: The Shiv Sena lashed out at the Centre over violence which broke out in Northeast Delhi earlier in the week. In its party mouthpiece, Saamana, the Sena said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah was nowhere on the scene when the national capital was burning.

The Sena also criticised the Centre on the transfer of Delhi High Court judge, Justice S Muralidhar observing that the government shifted him overnight after he ordered an FIR to be registered against BJP leaders Anurag Thakur, Pravesh Verma and Kapil Mishra.

The Shiv Sena and BJP have witnessed increasing hostility and their relationship from the time that the pre-poll alliance between the two parties, broke down after election results. The Sena which failed to come to an agreement with the BJP, went ahead and formed a coalition, Maha Vikas Aghadi MVE with Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Sena chief Uddhav Thacheray was sworn in as the Marashtra Chief Minister on November 28, 2019.

The BJP, led by former Maharashtra chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, has been sniping at the Shiv Sena leadership accusing it of abandoning its ideology and the cause of Hindutva. Fadnavis, on Wednesday, hit out at the Shiv Sena for not passing a resolution in the state Assembly against the Congress party is disrespect to Veer Savarkar.

Fadnavis has been accusing the Shiv Sena of giving up its core ideology for power. Meanwhile, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief, Raj Thackeray has been trying to move into the core Hindutva political voter base of the Shiv Sena and is seen cosying up to the BJP by political observers.