Taking jibes at the ruling Shiv Sena, former Maharashtra Chief Minister and the BJP’s Leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said the Uddhav Thackeray-led party had turned “pseudo-secular”.
Mr. Fadnavis, who was campaigning for the BJP’s candidate ahead of the April 12 Kolhapur North by-poll, took pot-shots at the three-party ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition government (of the Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress) by questioning why some parties were so upset at the ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ being played when it was part of Hindu tradition.
“The Shiv Sena became ‘pseudo-secular’ the day when one of their local leaders printed a calendar in Urdu in which [the late Sena] founder Bal Thackeray was addressed by the honorific janab [‘Sir’],” Mr. Fadnavis said.
