Mumbai:
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday hit out at the BJP, three days after his brother-in-law found himself targeted by the Enforcement Directorate with the agency freezing ₹ 6.45 crore in his assets in a money laundering case.
“If you want to come to power, then come to power. But don’t do all these vicious things to come to power. Don’t harass our or anyone else’s family members. We never bothered your family members,” he said in the assembly.
“It is not that we are saying that your families have done something wrong or that they have something that we can trouble you about. If you want to put us in jail to come to power, put me in jail,” Mr Thackeray said in what he called an “emotional” appeal.
The seizures of Uddhav Thackeray’s brother-in-law’s assets came two weeks after the Income Tax Department conducted a series of raids on people considered close to his son Aaditya Thackeray, a minister, and colleague Anil Parab prompting their party Shiv Sena to accuse the BJP at the centre of selectively targeting political opponents.
The move came two weeks after
