Either you will remain or me: Uddhav Thackeray to Devendra Fadnavis

Ahead of the assembly elections in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday warned BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis saying, "Either you will remain or me."

Addressing party workers in Mumbai, Thackeray claimed that Fadnavis was trying to implicate him and his son Aaditya Thackeray in false cases. "Devendra Fadnavis conspired in a number of ways to put me and Aaditya in prison. They have attacked my family. However, I have endured it and stood resolutely still...Now either you will remain or me," said Thackeray in his address to Mumbai's Shakha Pramukhs in Bandra.

Thackeray was referring to allegations made recently by former Maharashtra home minister and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) faction leader Anil Deshmukh that Fadnavis had tried to "pressurise him to implicate" the Thackerays and Ajit Pawar in fake cases.


Deshmukh claimed that he was asked to do so in order to avoid getting entangled in the Enforcement Directorate case filed against him for allegedly demanding ₹100 crore from bar owners and other establishments.

Incidentally, Fadnavis had also earlier alleged that when the MVA government was in power with Thackeray as the CM, there were attempts to put him in prison under a conspiracy along with some police officials from Mumbai.