Uddhay committed biggest crime, Shinde slams UBT on Waqf Bill

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday slammed Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray for opposing the Waqf Amendment Bill, accusing him of abandoning Hindutva and Balasaheb Thackeray's ideology. Speaking to the media in Mumbai, Shinde called it their "biggest crime." "By opposing this, UBT has revealed its true face. It has been proven that they have completely abandoned Hindutva and the ideals of Balasaheb Thackeray. This is extremely unfortunate. It is a bigger crime than the betrayal in 2019 when he (Uddhav Thackeray) formed a government with Congress in 2019, forsaking Balasaheb Thackeray's ideology," Eknath Shinde said.He further criticised Thackeray's leadership, calling him "confused" and When leadership becomes like this, the future of the party is also in darkness, he said. Shinde asserted that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2025 aims to end the monopoly of a select few over Waqf properties while alleging that Congress wants to keep the poor in poverty.

Mumbai, Maharashtra: Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde says, "In 2019, they committed a bigger betrayal when, for selfish gains, they abandoned Balasaheb Thackeray’s ideology and Hindutva to form a government with Congress. The Waqf Board, which was in the hands of a few… pic.twitter.com/qafIz2RfQb

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Earlier in the day, Uddhav Thackeray slammed the "all show, no substance" Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government. He said that his party opposed the Waqf (Amendment) Bill and also the hypocrisy of the BJP and its "plans to give lands to businessmen friends". Standing firm on his opposition to the Waqf Amendment Bill, Thackeray acknowledged that a few rectifications were "good". However, he added, the BJP was all show and no substance since they repealed Article 370 and didn't manage to get Kashmiri Pandits their lands.