Uddhav praises Shah for axing Article 370, demands UCC

Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday lavished praises on Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah for the decision to abrogate the Constitution’s Article 370 which gave special status to Jammu & Kashmir.
Addressing his customary annual Dussehra Rally, he described Shah as “a person who lives up to his words” and said the scrapping of Article 370 was a dream of the party’s founder, the later Balasaheb Thackeray.
“Amitbhai does what he says. By scrapping Article 370, the dream of Balasaheb Thackeray has been fulfilled. Now we want the Uniform Civil Code,” Thackeray said.
Greeting people on the occasion of Dassehra, he said that this day is celebrated for Lord Ram killing the demon king Ravana.
“This means Lord Ram existed. So it is our demand that a temple of Lord Ram should come up in his birthplace, Ayodhya. We are not seeking votes in the name of the temple, but because it is the desire of all countrymen and the Hindus,” Thackeray said at Shivaji Park.
He committed that in its next tenure, the BJP-Sena alliance government’s performance would be akin to ‘Ram Rajya’.