Any college will be proud if…: Uddhav’s dig at PM over degree

TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ Shiv Sena-UBT leader Uddhav Thackeray has dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party to fulfil late Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar’s dream of “akhand Bharat” and took a dig at Modi over the issue of his educational degrees.

Addressing the first rally of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, formerly Aurangabad, days after communal violence, Thackeray targeted BJP and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde over the ‘Savarkar Gaurav yatra’, saying the sacred saffron (flag) doesn’t look good in their hands.

“Savarkar suffered rigorous imprisonment and hardships for the Independence of the country and not to make Modi the prime minister. Will you fulfil Savarkar’s dream of ‘akhand Bharat’?” Thackeray asked. Senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar and his counterparts from Congress Balasaheb Thorat and Ashok Chavan also spoke on the occasion.