I assume through doing this we are paying tribute to the past due representative of the people,” Raj Thackeray wrote within the letter addressed to “Dear pal Devendra”. “To accomplish that is also in keeping with the exquisite tradition of our Maharashtra. I desire you will accept my request,” he brought.
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s cousin and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has written to Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis with an unexpected request.
The BJP, he wrote, have to now not discipline a candidate in the Andheri (East)
through-election so Rutuja Latke, who’s contesting in region of her husband Ramesh Latke, the Shiv Sena MLA who died in earlier this 12 months, can win.
“I suppose by using doing this we are paying tribute to the late consultant of the people,” he wrote in the letter addressed to “Dear pal Devendra”. “To accomplish that is likewise in keeping with the super culture of our Maharashtra. I desire you’ll receive my request,” he delivered.
Ramesh Latke turned into a “top worker,” Mr Thackeray wrote.
“He commenced his political adventure from the put up of department chief. I am a witness to his political journey. After his dying, if his spouse turns into an MLA, then the soul of Ramesh will rest in peace,” wrote Raj Thackeray.
An MLA from the Shinde faction, Pratap Sarnaik, has also written a letter requesting Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to have the BJP’s Murji Patel drop out of the race in opposition to Rutuja Latke, who is a candidate of Uddhav Thackeray’s Sena faction.
Today is the final day to withdraw the candidature for Andheri East Bypoll.
The MNS leader had formed his very own birthday celebration in 2006 after breaking faraway from the Shiv Sena following differences with Uddhav Thackeray.
There has been no response to the letter from the BJP. Murji Patel, the BJP candidate, has said that he is ready to withdraw from the race if the birthday party asked him.
Raj Thackeray’s letter comes amid a bitter tussle among the 2 Sena factions over the approaching election and the larger query of inheriting the legacy of birthday celebration founder Bal Thackeray.
The BJP had subsidized the rebellion via Sena’s Eknath Shinde that toppled the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities led by means of Uddhav Thackeray in June.
The faction led through Mr Thackeray has already critcised the BJP for making a contest vital. It has additionally accused the Eknath Shinde faction of looking to sabotage their candidate beforehand of the elections by using influencing the Mumbai civic frame now not to accept her resignation.
Ms Latke, who labored inside the Brihanmumbai Corporation as a clerk, had to approach the courts and filed her nomination most effective after a court docket order.