Thackeray also warned chief minister Prithviraj Chavan against Rane saying 'He (Rane) needs psychiatric treatment else he might one day also accuse Prithviraj Chavan of offering Rs500 crore to Sonia Gandhi to become chief minister.'
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today attacked Maharashtra industries minister Narayan Rane for accusing Shiv Sena of being a political party that was approached by 11 corporate houses with an offer of Rs500 crore to scuttle the Jaitapur Nuclear Power project in Ratnagiri district.
"Was Rane counting the money that the Sena was offered Rs500 crore to oppose the Jaitapur (nuclear) power plant? People who know Rane won't find the allegations surprising. The same person had alleged that some Congress leaders had a connection with Pakistani terrorists after 26/11 Mumbai attacks," Thackeray said in an editorial of the party mouthpiece Saamna.
Rane had also criticised senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel and refused to work under the then chief minister Ashok Chavan saying it was an "insult" to work under him, he said.
Thackeray also warned chief minister Prithviraj Chavan against Rane saying "He (Rane) needs psychiatric treatment else he might one day also accuse Prithviraj Chavan of offering Rs500 crore to Sonia Gandhi to become chief minister."
Defending his party's stand on Jaitapur issue, the senior Thackeray said that opposition to the nuclear power project was a "spontaneous" reaction and not "sponsored" by anyone as being alleged.
Shiv Sena is connected with the locals and no one would risk his life and face bullets in lieu of money, he added.
The industries minister had said in the state assembly that 11 corporate houses had approached a "particular political party" so as to put spanner in the Jaitapur plant, fearing they would have to lower power tariffs being supplied by them if the project saw the light of the day.
"According to our information, that political party is the Shiv Sena and the input is being probed," Rane had said.
Meanwhile, party executive president Uddhav Thackeray will visit Jaitapur on Monday to meet the family members of Tavrez Sayekar who was killed in police firing during the violent protests at Sakhari Nate village.
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