Samajwadi Party to quit MVA over Thackeray Sena’s stand on Babri mosque demolition
The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) adopted a ‘Hindutva agenda’ after its defeat in the recent Maharashtra Assembly polls, alleged SP leader Abu Azmi.
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The Samajwadi Party on Saturday said that it has decided to withdraw from the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghad in Maharashtra in view of a newspaper advertisement published by the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) praising the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, PTI reported.
Apart from the Samajwadi Party and the Thackeray Sena, the Maha Vikas Aghadi comprises Sharad Pawar’s faction of the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress.
The Babri Masjid was demolished by Hindutva extremists in December 1992, because they believed that it stood on the spot where the Hindu deity Ram was born. The incident had triggered communal riots across the country.
The Ram temple in Ayodhya is now being built at the site of the demolished mosque. The temple was inaugurated in a ceremony led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22.
On Friday, the Samajwadi Party’s Maharashtra unit chief in the state, Abu Azmi, alleged that the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) had adopted a “Hindutva agenda” after its defeat in the recent Assembly elections, the Hindustan Times reported.
“An advertisement was given by Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) in a newspaper congratulating those who demolished Babri Masjid,” Azmi told PTI. “His [Uddhav Thackeray] aide has also posted on [social media platform] X hailing the demolition of the mosque.”
Azmi was referring...
