Devendra Fadnavis heckled at Balasaheb Thackeray’s death anniversary function

Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis was on
Sunday subjected to sloganeering by a section of Shiv Sena workers as he left
Shivaji Park in the metropolis after paying tribute to Balasaheb Thackeray on
his ninth death anniversary.

Some Shiv Sena workers in
close proximity to the former CM’s convoy were seen shouting in Marathi
Fadnavis’ assembly poll campaign slogan: ‘I will be back (as CM)’ along with
the Sena’s traditional ‘Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki jai’ war cry.

Devendra Fadnavis and his
entourage, which included several senior BJP leaders, moved on without reacting
to the jibes.

There were no Shiv Sena
leaders, except Uddhav Thackeray’s PA Milind Narvekar, when Devendra Fadnavis
arrived at Shivaji Park to pay tribute to the founder of the Maharashtrian
party.

Earlier in the day, Fadnavis had tweeted a video containing some of the
late Sena patriarch’s rousing speeches, and had added his voice-over as a
tribute.

The Sena and the BJP contested the October Assembly polls together and
won 161 seats between them, before the Uddhav Thackeray-led party’s insistence
on equal sharing of the chief ministerial tenure led to acrimony and stalemate
in government formation.

Following weeks of bitter
political drama, the Sena is currently in the process of forming a non-BJP
government with support from Congress and Nationalist Congress Party.