Assembly polls showed Maha rejected politics of betrayal: Shah

Home Minister unleashes a fierce critique of Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray, accusing them of treachery

- Surendra P Gangan

SHIRDI: Union home minister Amit Shah said the BJP's unprecedented victory in the recent assembly elections in Maharashtra will not only be remembered for the next 25 years, it has also given a fitting reply to the "deceitful politics" of Sharad Pawar started in 1978 and carried forward by Uddhav Thackeray in 2019. Shah made these remarks at the concluding session of the BJP's two-day convention in Shirdi.

He added that the BJP should be made so "unconquerable" that "nobody should dare to use deceit to defeat it in future".

"The electoral victory (in Maharashtra) has buried the politics of betrayal started by Sharad Pawar in 1978 and carried forward by Uddhav Thackeray in 2019. Thackeray parted ways with the ideology of Balasaheb Thackeray and became chief minister with the help of deceit and falsehood. The people of Maharashtra have shown Thackeray his place and put an end to the politics of uncertainty that prevailed from 1978 to 2024," Shah said.

The Union minister said the BJP's landslide victory in the November 20 assembly election also "brought national politics back on track".