Mumbai, 5/9: Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray has betrayed the BJP and must be “taught a lesson”, Union home minister and the BJP’s chief strategist Amit Shah said at a meeting of party leaders in Mumbai today. “We can tolerate anything in politics but not betrayal,” sources quoted Mr Shah as saying at the meeting.
Mr Shah, sources said, had accused the former Maharashtra Chief Minister of being responsible for the split in his party and the subsequent events. His “greed”, Mr Shah said, was the reason a section of his party had turned against him, brushing off any BJP hand in the rebellion by Eknath Shinde and the subsequent toppling of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government headed by Mr Thackeray.