Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday met former Congress presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and said "everything is fine", signalꦚling an end to the row over V D Savarkar.
The Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena was upset over Rahul Gandhi's strident attack of Savarkar, a revolutionary leader revered in Maharashtra, leading to🅠 friction in the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi coalition with the Congress and NCP in the state💞.
NCP supremo Sharad Pawar had asked Rahul Gandhi🦄 to tone down the criticism of Savarkar and reminded the Congress leader that෴ the real fight of the opposition parties was with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP.
"Met Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Many important issues were discussed. Everything is fine. Thꦿere is nothing to worry," Raut said on Twitter.
Raut had spoken with Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday aft▨er the intervention by Pawar.
"The opposition is united in Maharashtra as well as in th🌟e couꦰntry," Raut said to questions about opposition unity in Maharashtra.
On Tuesday, Raut said he had raised the Savarkar issue in his talks with Congress President Mallꩵikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi and MVA partners are on the same page on th🧸is matter.
"MVA alliance is intact. If anyone thinks the MVA will break apart, they are wrong,"🐠 Raut said.
🍨Gandhi is lea🙈rnt to have assured Raut he would avoid any critical reference to Savarkar.
Pawar raised the issue during a me🎃eting of opposition leaders convened by Kharge on Monday and m🐎ade it clear that targeting Savarkar would not help the MVA.
As the BJP stepped up attack on Rahul Gandhi and soug❀ht his apology for "maligning" India on his recent visit to the UK, the former Lok Sabha member from Wayanad said at a press conference on Saturday tha🐻t he was not Savarkar and would not apologise.
Former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray had s🍬lammed Gandhi for his attack on Savarkar and said his outfit will not tolerate any insult of the freedom fighter.
The Thackeray faction had skipped the meeting conven🦂ed by Kharge as a mark of protest against Gandhi's remarks targeting Savarkar.
