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Kesarkar said the fatwa helped the Shiv Sena (UBT) win seats in Mumbai. If you subtract that (minority votes), each Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate would have lost by more than 1-1.5 lakh votes. He further claimed that Muslim voters are convinced that Uddhav Thackeray has ‘abandoned’ the Hindutva ideology and the ideals of Bal Thackeray. Deepak Kesarkar also alleged that the Shiv Sena (UBT) falsely claimed that Marathi voters were not supporting the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena.
Maharashtra minister and Eknath Shinde’s loyalist Deepak Kesarkar has made a big claim about Shiv Sena (UBT)’s victory in Mumbai Lok Sabha seats. Kesarkar said that the fatwa has helped the rival Shiv Sena win in Mumbai. Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena won 7 out of the 15 Lok Sabha seats it contested in Maharashtra. Out of the 6 Lok Sabha seats in Mumbai, Shiv Sena (UBT) won 3 seats while Congress, BJP and Shiv Sena got 1 seat each.
Kesarkar said the fatwa helped the Shiv Sena (UBT) win seats in Mumbai. If you subtract that (minority votes), each Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate would have lost by more than 1-1.5 lakh votes. He further claimed that Muslim voters are convinced that Uddhav Thackeray has ‘abandoned’ the Hindutva ideology and the ideals of Bal Thackeray. Deepak Kesarkar also alleged that the Shiv Sena (UBT) falsely claimed that Marathi voters were not supporting the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena.
He further said that the Shinde-led Shiv Sena got equal support from Mumbaikars and Marathi voters. The Maharashtra minister also alleged that a conspiracy was hatched in Pakistan to weaken Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Two ministers in Pakistan advocated Modi’s defeat and sadly few people here paid heed to them. He said the opposition also misled Dalit communities with false claims of changing the Constitution.
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