Maharashtra Assembly Elections: MVA is Aurangzeb fan club, Amit Shah says in Yavatmal

Mumbai: Union Home Minister Amit Shah drew parallels from the Mahabharata war between the Pandavas and Kauravas to describe the fight between the Mahayuti and the Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharsahtra.

"While voting on November 20, people should remember that, like in the Mahabharat, there are Pandavas on one end, and on the other end Kauravas. One is in favour of truth and the other of falsehood. At one end is development and tradition, and on the other hand is the desperation to come to power somehow like the Aurangzeb fan club of Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray," said the Union minister while addressing a campaign rally in Umarkhed in Yavatmal.

Shah referred to the Muslim Ulemas meeting the MVA leaders recently and giving a memorandum of their demands to be fulfilled.


"The Congress has agreed to give ₹15,000 to maulanas in masjids. They want to remove Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and OBC reservations and give it to the Muslims. They want ₹1,000 crore to repair mosques... Uddhav Thackeray, who didn't go to the Ram Temple, should now drown himself in a drop of water... Try as much as you want, Muslims will not get reservation in Maharashtra," said Shah.

Earlier, speaking in Hingoli, the Union home minister said that the MVA organises Azaan (Muslim call for prayer) competitions while putting those who sing Hanuman Chalisa in jail.

"Uddhav Thackeray should remember where his father (Bal Thackeray) was taking the state and where he is taking it," he said.

The November assembly 20 elections will decide whether the state walks the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Savarkar way or whether it will walk the Aurangzeb way, said Shah.