PUNE: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday took on the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government of Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP combine by accusing it of promoting the culture of corruption and touts since assuming office in Maharashtra. In the same breath, he claimed that Sena ditched BJP and compromised on the Hindutva agenda for the lure of power.
Addressing a BJP workers’ meeting ahead of the civic polls in Pune, Mumbai and elsewhere in Maharashtra scheduled in February 2022, Shah said: “Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena have given a new meaning to the term DBT (direct benefit transfer). While Congress has taken the ‘D’ for dealer, Sena has taken ‘B’ for broker and NCP ‘T’ for transfer-cut money.”
He described the MVA government as “an autorickshaw with three punctured tyres – all going in different directions and barely working. It just emits gas and increases pollution”.
The Union home minister went on to dare MVA functionaries to step down and together fight an election against BJP in Maharashtra. “I was in a power-sharing alliance talk with the Shiv Sena for the 2019 state assembly elections. But BJP was backstabbed by Sena, which was eying the CM’s post,” Shah claimed.