New Delhi: Shiv Sena UBT leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said winning party MLAs will not take oath to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) mahayuti government In Maharashtra. Thackeray, who alleged that EVMs were being misused during the Maharashtra assembly elections, said he “doubts it”.
When being interviewed by reporters, Aditya Thackeray said his party “has decided that our (Shiv Sena UBT) winning MLAs will not take oath on the first day of the Maharashtra Assembly session” to protest against misuse of EVMs during elections.
“If this was a mandate from the people, people would be happy and celebrate it, but people are not celebrating this victory anywhere. We are skeptical about the EVM,” he added.
Thackeray further said that his party boycotted the oath-taking ceremony as “democracy is being murdered due to the use of EVMs”. “This (the results of the Maharashtra assembly elections) is not a mandate from the public, but a mandate from the EVM and the Election Commission of India,” he added.
Thackeray’s announcement came at the start of a special session of the state Assembly, where the chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde Ajit Pawar sworn in as member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
Earlier today, Fadnavis along with Shinde and Pawar paid tribute to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at the Vidhan Bhavan complex in Mumbai on the first day of the Extraordinary Congress.
Aaditya Thackeray and several Shiv Sena UBT party workers were also present during the event.
