Words matter. These are the best Uddhav Thackeray Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Shiv Sena and BJP have the same ideology of Hindutva.
Vallabhbhai Patel was known as the Iron Man of India, and it is said that if he was the Prime Minister then the issue of Kashmir wouldn’t have come about. And if Savarkar was the Prime Minister, Pakistan wouldn’t have come into existence.
If you cannot fulfill the aspirations of people, what is the difference between you and the previous government?
I have learnt a lot of things from Devendra Fadvanis and I will always be friends with him.
I am finding out how parties with different ideologies forged alliances with the BJP. I want to question BJP on ideology – how they came together with Nitish Kumar, Paswan, PDP and Naidu.
I follow the Hindutva of my father and grandfather.
I will never run away from my responsibilities.
I always believe in team work.
Our handling of Covid-19 pandemic, especially in Dharavi, has been applauded at the international level.
There is hardly any coordination between the Centre’s Make In India and Start-Up India schemes and demonetization.
If it is the choice between a bullet train and a three-wheeler, I will choose the latter as it is the traveling mode of the poor people.
An e-bhoomi pujan can be done. The ground-breaking ceremony can be held through video-conference.
I take guidance regularly from NCP chief Sharad Pawar Saheb and occasionally speak Soniaji Gandhi.
The Shiv Sena manifesto had promised concession in power bills. It was a poll promise which will be fulfilled.
It seems the BJP desperately needs to win Mumbai to stand on its feet once again. After all, the greed to win Mumbai will continue to remain, no matter how many States you win.
Even though the party or ideology of government is important, after the formation of the government it’s the duty of the government either at the Centre or at the state to work impartially without any discrimination.
Rather than politics of ‘love jihad,’ why shouldn’t the concept of Love Jihad be applicable in politics?
Acts and laws are for people. People are not for Acts and laws. Acts and laws should be simple.
I am proud of my government. Like China, we also built hospitals within 15-20 days.
Whenever I or the Sena make our views known, we are dubbed anti-government.
I went to Ayodhya, offered my prayers, I got respect even when I was not the Chief Minister.
The CAA is not a law to remove someone from the country. Union home minister Amit Shah has said that it is to give citizenship. And I agree with it to that extent. It is to give citizenship to persecuted minorities from neighbouring countries and not to remove anyone from the country.
I never said that demonetization is a wrong decision, I am not an economist, but I said that the way it was implemented was not right.
The Shiv Sena is the only voice of the people of Maharashtra.
I can’t be seen as someone who lies.
BJP are opposed to a Muslim boy marrying a Hindu girl. Then how did BJP have an alliance with Mehbooba Mufti or Nitish Kumar or Chandrababu Naidu?
We suffered a lot by mixing religion with the politics.
I do not think so that it is possible for anybody to remove the saffron flag.
Shiv Sena is taking on the government for people’s issues and not for self- interest. We will continue to fight with the government on the issues concerning common people.
This pandemic is a global war. It has affected the entire world. Those countries which had lifted the lockdown in haste thinking that it was over, were again forced to impose it to curb the spread.
I know this government is running in a three-wheeler like an autorickshaw, but for the poor people the steering is in my hand and the other two are sitting behind supporting.
My focus is just to defeat the Congress-NCP combine, nothing else. We will do everything to keep them out of power.
The future of my government is not in the hands of the opposition. The steering wheel is in my hands.
I will not tolerate killing of trees in the dead of the night.
I am not going to quit politics until I fulfill the promise made to Balasaheb of making a Shiv Sainik the chief minister of Maharashtra. I will do it.
I had never dreamed of leading the state.
To prevent division of Hindu votes, Balasaheb decided that Shiv Sena will take care of Maharashtra and BJP can take care of whole country. But things have changed now.
People have seen the Shiv Sena and the BJP for the past 30 years. For 25 years, we stood united, there was confusion for five years. But like Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said, I still provided guidance to government from time to time.
There was never a need to call the Army in Mumbai. I am proud of the administration which rose to the challenge and set up jumbo field hospitals for treatment of coronavirus patients in the city.
If one cannot use technology then it is really unfortunate.
Balasaheb Thackeray’s teachings have been that defeat is better than false promises.
No one should do politics in the guise of Hindutva and teach us what Hindutva is.
Sharad Pawar has taught us how to raise farm productivity and also how to form a government with less number of MLAs in the legislative assembly.
During elections, if one says I do not promise anything to the voter, then he won’t give his valuable vote. But while promising the voters, things that cannot be fulfilled should not be promised.
I would like a bullet train which connects my state capital and the second capital.
Power is not just about the chair. The public is power.
I am still with the ideology of Hindutva which cannot be separated from me.
Like my father Bal Thackeray, those Muslims who consider India their motherland, respect the laws of this country, don’t ignite riots and live amicably, we have nothing against them – as far as the others, they have no right to live in India.
Modi is country’s PM, not BJP’s PM only.
We will always miss Balasaheb, but I will work hard to ensure that his absence is not felt politically.
Does the Centre not have confidence in the state’s investigative agencies? It leads to strained relations between the Centre and state.
The Congress doesn’t have the leadership. What exactly is Rahul Gandhi doing is the question… sometimes he says something good, at times he makes a mess.
Government should show the list of farmers, who have got benefitted from loan waiver. Farmers’ loan of Rs 39 lakh crore was waived off. So, why is government hiding their names?
It is true that the Thackerays have never fought elections. But we have never backed out from responsibilities.
During Lok Sabha elections, Amit Shah and Fadnavis came to me. During talks, I was given offer of deputy CM post. I said I am not so helpless. I have given a promise to Balasaheb that a Maharashtra CM will be from Shiv Sena. So I did not agree and stayed firm.
