A day after losing the bow-arrow battle — which was a prestige war too — to Eknath Shinde, former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday appeared strong and aggressive as he addressed his supporters outside his residence Matoshree from a car with a sunroof. Giving a clarion call for the next election, Uddhav said, “Are you scared? I have nothing to give you now.”
As many drew a parallel between Saturday’s angry Uddhav to Balasaheb, BJP’s Keshav Upadhye said Uddhav can’t become Balasaheb just by standing on the car. To become Balasaheb, hard work is needed, the BJP leader tweeted. “Balasaheb toiled day and night, maintained the workers, raised the organisation, brought Shiv Sena to power. The copy-bahadur, on the other hand, never stepped out of his house, never met the workers, hurt the party organisation and came to power by treachery,” the BJP leader tweeted.
In 1968, Balasaheb addressed a gathering standing on the roof of a car which many remembered on Saturday.
“We should not rest till we teach the thief a lesson in elections. Start preparing for elections immediately,” Uddhav said. “The thief has hurled a stone at a beehive. But he has not experienced the sting of honeybees,” Uddhav added. Shinde has stolen the bow and the arrow but like Ravana who could not lift the Shiv Dhanush, Shinde will not be able to carry the stolen bow and arrow. “The thief wants the Thackeray name, Balasaheb’s photo but not the Shiv Sena family,” Uddhav said.