'The alliance will not only pull down the incumbent government in the state, but also in Delhi,' Uddhav said while addressing a gathering to mark Shiv Sena's 45th foundation day.
Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray today said that only the grand alliance of "Shivshakti-Bhimshakti" could pull Maharashtra out of darkness.
"The alliance will not only pull down the incumbent government in the state, but also in Delhi," Uddhav said while addressing a gathering to mark Shiv Sena's 45th foundation day.
RPI leader Ramdas Athavale was the special invitee at the celebrations held at Shanmukhanand Hall in central Mumbai.
Promising that the saffron alliance with the RPI will be life-long, Uddhav assured Athavale that he would be given due respect in the alliance. He was responding to Athavale’s comments earlier that he would first observe the experience of how he is treated in the saffron alliance.
Thackeray said the dream of "Shivshakti (Sena and BJP) and Bhimshakti (RPI) coming together was first seen by his grandfather Prabodhankar Thackeray, which has become a reality now.
Taking on the Congress-NCP for calling Shiv Sena a communal party, Uddhav said that the Sena was committed to the ideology of Hindutva.
"We have not hidden anything. Does this mean we are communal? At least we are not faking anything. We do not back-stab people. We attack from the front," he said.
Hitting out at NCP for questioning Sena chief Bal Thackeray's contribution, Uddhav said even Pakistan knows what he is. "He is the one who takes the country's enemy head-on and that is why he is on the hit-list of terrorists," he said.
Referring to the practice of taking oath in the court in the name of one's religion, he wondered why should it be so.
"The court is a 'nyaya mandir' (temple of justice). Why not ask the witness to take oath by keeping his hand on the Indian constitution? Why is religion brought in legal matters?" he asked and wondered whether the witness is important or the religion, to which he belongs.
Speaking earlier, Athavale said that Shiv Sena had no role to a play in the riots triggered by renaming of the Marathwada University. "Efforts are being made to defame the party," he said.
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