Amidst the excitement of Mumbai BMC elections, Shiv Sena Yuviti chief Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray had a special conversation with TV9 Bharatvarsh. During this, Uddhav Thackeray discussed many issues including Marathi Manush, alliance with Raj Thackeray, manifesto, Mahavikas Aghadi. During this, he fiercely attacked Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and BJP. Read the full interview….

1. Question: I had interviewed Balasaheb Thackeray in 2004 in Ahilyanagar, then he had said that Shiv Sena will keep fighting until Marathi people get strength, do you think Uddhav ji has got that strength or is it still there?

answer: It should come… but it does not mean that we are against other languages ​​because Balasaheb is known as the Hindu Hriday Samrat. He started with the fight of the sons of Bhumiputra. Bhumiputra means, if we consider the entire country then I am a Hindu. We are Marathi in Maharashtra. Gum in Gujarat is Gujarati. This means that when provinces were created according to language, each language got its own province, its own capital, its own government. But Maharashtra had to fight for its capital. Blood had to be shed. Had to be martyred. After this Mumbai went to Maharashtra. That time was such that Mumbai was found but Yashwant Rao Chavan had said that Mumbai is in Maharashtra but Maharashtra is not in Mumbai. This means there is no Marathi in Mumbai. Since then Shiv Sena started. Those times were like this. Today, after so many years, we are experiencing that the Marathi people in Mumbai are being denied their homes. I have no quarrel with all the other linguistic people here. But some builders who are working with the support of BJP are being bullied. The way the entire business and economic center which was given by Manmohan Singh's government, they took it to Gujarat after 2014. Took to Gujarat with diamond market, cricket final to Gujarat… everything Gujarat. So BJP is conspiring to create a fight between Gujarati and Marathi.

2. Question: You and Raj Thackeray are saying that if BMC does not come to power this time, then Marathi identity and existence is in danger, how?

answer: First I have to ask him one thing, which I started with. Balasaheb had said that there are Hindus in the entire country, Marathi in Maharashtra. So is Devendra Fadnavis a Hindu or not? If he is not a Hindu then it is shocking for me. I say that I am a Marathi but actually I am a patriot Hindu. So why does Fadnavis not consider a Marathi person as a Hindu? Is he himself a Hindu or not? If he were from Mumbai, he would not have looted the treasury of Mumbai. Why are they looting Mumbai?

3. Question: The alliance that the entire Maharashtra was waiting for for 20 years has happened, you and Raj have come together, what will you say?

answer: That picture came '20 years later'... so we will make a new picture after 20 years.

4. Question: You, Raj and Aditya are going to the branches and meeting the workers, holding public meetings and road shows, how much enthusiasm is there?

answer: Yes, we are seeing a lot of enthusiasm. I always do this. It is not that I am doing this only in this election. Now it has reduced a little because Aditya has started leaving. Till the last four days, only I used to go. But there was difficulty in speaking. Pollution is the problem of the people here, which Fadnavis calls development. This is pollution of corruption.

5. Question: Saved people's lives by building a field hospital in 18 days during Covid. Mumbai model was praised. You were the CM? What would you like to say about this?

answer: This is it isn't it? Mumbai model was praised all over the world. All the work we did is in this book. Like the coastal road, we had improved the BST service. We showed this by waiving property tax up to 500 square feet. Now what we are going to do going forward is given here. We will expand medical colleges further.

6. Question: You and Raj are not talking about Muslims in this election but BJP says that you are pro-Muslim? What will you say?

answer: This is because he had nothing left to say and it is my mistake that I was not with him when he was distributing Saugat-e-Modi. I was not with Modi ji when he was going under the Tajiya. When Modi ji went to eat Nawaz Sharif's cake, I was not with him. My biggest mistake was that I did not go to the mosque with Mohan Bhagwat ji. Talk about issues. BJP did not do anything. He definitely committed a scam worth three lakh crores in 3-4 years. Drug dealing was not so rampant in entire Maharashtra. Who had a drug factory in Satara? Whose dance bars belonged to?

7. Question: Shinde, Shiv Sena and BJP are contesting elections face to face in many places. Ajit Pawar is fighting separately from Mahayuti at many places. There is a rift in MVA also. What will you say?

answer: Maha Vikas Aghadi has definitely disintegrated a bit. But we are not criticizing each other like Mahayuti is doing.