Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai (SR)

Mumbai, Oct 8: In a scathing attack at the Central Government, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, in an interview to party mouthpiece Saamana, on Tuesday, said the problems of job and business losses still persist in the country.

“Whether there is economic slowdown or not we will see later but jobs are going, businesses are shutting down this is clearly visible and let us accept that,” Thackeray said, as quoted in party mouthpiece Saamana.

In the interview, Thackeray also shared his views on various issues, including the car depot at Aarey Milk Colony in Goregaon, Mumbai, about issues in Centre’s crop insurance scheme, handling of the drought and flood-affected areas in Maharashtra, etc.

Attacking the state administration over the felling of trees in Aarey for a Metro car shed, he said “Babus who have murdered the trees will have to pay the price for it.”

He strongly condemned the practice of vendetta politics and also hinted the use of investigating agencies such as Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against political opponents.

“If the government is acting with vengeance or with a mindset of vendetta [then] my firm opinion is that power and rights should not be misused and no one should practice vendetta politics... Honestly, this issue was not required before the elections,” he said while referring to the ED case against Nationalist Congress Party Sharad Pawar and his nephew Ajit Pawar.