BJP’s Narayan Rane calls Thackeray a ‘buddhu’ Chief Minister

Mumbai, Oct 26 : In a brutal personal attack, Bharatiya Janata Party MP Narayan Rane on Monday called Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray a “buddhu” (fool) who remains caged in his home.
Rane alleged that “nobody respects him, Shiv Sena MLAs or MPs” and that Thackeray was “unfit” to be the CM with no vision for Maharashtra.
His diatribe came a day after Thackeray had slammed the BJP in the state and Centre, besides targeting Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis and actress Kangana Ranaut without taking names.
Incidentally, Rane was a former Shiv Sena CM (1999) and later Leader of Opposition, and after his expulsion from the Sena, he joined the Congress in 2005. In 2017, he floated his own outfit, the Maharashtra Swabhiman Party (MSP) and supported the ruling BJP, and in 2018, he became a Rajya Sabha MP and merged the MSP with the BJP.
“Uddhav lacks any qualities to become the CM… he doesn’t listen to Secretaries. We can see where the state is headed whether it’s the issue of farmers, agriculture, the economy, education, or the Corona pandemic,” Rane alleged.
“He calls himself a ‘Tiger’. He never steps out of his home. What is he, a caged tiger or one in the open? Over 43,000 people have died to Covid-19 pandemic, the highest in the country. What’s he done about it?” Rane demanded.