'Same land that produced Aurangzeb also produced people like him': Sanjay Raut's swipe at PM

NEW DELHI: Senior Shiv Sena (UBT) person Sanjay Raut connected Saturday delivered a stinging broadside against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, drafting parallels with Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.Addressing a property league successful Pune, the Rajya Sabha subordinate said, "This state has produced large leaders specified arsenic Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri, P V Narasimha Rao, Rajiv Gandhi, B R Ambedkar, and Bal Thackeray.

Such large leaders were calved from the ungraded of this nation.""But erstwhile I look astatine the full quality of Narendra Modi, I americium concerned... Because the aforesaid onshore that produced Aurangzeb besides produced radical similar him. Aurangzeb was calved successful Gujarat," helium added.Raut's comments travel astatine a clip erstwhile the Uddhav Thackeray-led enactment is facing increasing speculation astir its aboriginal wrong the absorption camp.According to sources successful the NDA, Shiv Sena (UBT) is among the parties being watched intimately for imaginable defections.

Such discussions person persisted since the Mahayuti alliance's sweeping triumph successful the Maharashtra Assembly elections, but person gathered caller momentum successful caller weeks.The Uddhav Thackeray-led enactment presently has 9 MPs successful the Lok Sabha. Under the anti-defection law, astatine slightest six MPs would request to determination unneurotic to different enactment to debar disqualification. TOI sources suggest that if specified a improvement takes place, the astir apt destination would beryllium the Shiv Sena led by Maharashtra lawman main curate

Eknath Shinde

.The speculation has gained further traction pursuing the rebellion wrong the

Trinamool Congress

, wherever a dissident faction has openly challenged enactment supremo

Mamata Banerjee

's enactment and signalled enactment for the Narendra Modi-led NDA.