Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray asks NCP's Sharad Pawar to clear his stance on ally Congress' abolition of sedition law promise

Targeting NCP chief Sharad Pawar on the poll promise by its alliance partner Congress of repealing the sedition law, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday asked Pawar to clarify his stance on it. The Congress had in its manifesto promised that it will abolish all the sedition laws after coming to power.

While addressing a rally in Osmanabad for Shiv Sena's Lok Sabha candidate Pavanraje Nimbalkar, Sena chief Uddhav said:  "The Congress has assured of striking down the sedition law, and I would like to know whether Congress' partner NCP and Sharad Pawar are also of the same opinion." 

Reacting to the Congress-NCP audio-visual campaign tagline "Laj Kashi Vatat Nahi (Aren't they ashamed), Thackeray said, "In fact, the Mother India will say that she is ashamed of both of you, the Congress and the NCP". It is the need of the hour to ask Sharad Pawar whether he is ashamed of himself," he said.

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Referring to the sedition case on JNU students for shouting anti-national slogans, Thackeray labelled JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) students including CPI candidate from Begusarai Kanhaiya Kumar as "red monkeys".

"There is some university called the JNU and its red monkeys like Kanhaiya Kumar. Who are these people, who gave out slogans of breaking India into several pieces? How can you expect people to call them patriotic and not anti-nationals?," Thackeray asked. "I believe that had Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj been alive today, he would have thrown such anti-nationals off the cliff from one of his forts," he added. 

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A battle between the Congress-NCP and BJP-Shiv-Sena alliance awaits Maharashtra. The NCP and the Congress have agreed to a 26 (Congress) - 22 (NCP) seat-sharing formula weeks before the BJP and Sena renewed their own alliance of 25-23 seat-sharing plan for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls of 2019. 

Elections in Maharashtra will be held across four phases including seven seats which went to polls on April 11.