Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sa♈turday demanded the dismissal of the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, ta🔯rgeting it over the law and order situation in the state.
Addressing a press conference here,﷽ he also demanded that President's rule be imposed⛎ in the state and fresh polls be conducted.
"We demand dismissal of the Maharashtra government," Thackeray said, citing law and order situation in the state aft💮er a leader of his party was shot dead in Dahisar on Thursday evening.
The former chief minister also accuse🥀d the state government of protecting mobsters.
Former corporator Abhishek Ghosalkar (40), son of Sena (UBT) leader Vinod Ghosalkar, 🐼was shot dead during a Facebook Live by local businessman and social activist Mauriওs Noronha on Thursday evening. Noronha later killed himself, police said.
Earlier, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Ganpat Gaikwad shot and injure🍬d a local leader of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena at a police station in Ulhasnagar near Mumbai on February 2 over a land dispute and political rivalry.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Friday wro𒁃te a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, seeking his urgent intervention over the "det🔯eriorating" law and order situation in Maharashtra.