Rajool Patil, the daughter of corporator Sanjay Dina Patil, has said that she chooses to stay with Uddhav Thackeray’s UBT after her father joined the rebelling MPs.
On Sunday, she arrived at the residence of Thackeray and met the party chief and Aditya Thackeray in north east Mumbai and clarified her position.
For the past few days, the politics in Maharashtra have been under focus after ^ MPs from the Shiv Sena UBT party decided to defect and join Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Rajool Patil said that she would “carry out her work with integrity”
“I came to meet Uddhav and Adhitya Thackeray. I have made my stand clear to them, and I am with them. This is my decision. I will carry out my work with integrity,” she said.
Thackeray is reportedly leaving soon for North East Mumbai. When asked about her role, she said that she would be present to welcome him.
Rajool Patil also spoke of her father’s decision to leave the party. She believes that everyone in her house is free to make their own political decisions,
“It is his personal decision. Everyone in our house has the freedom to make their own political decisions. He will announce his final decision himself," she said
Sanjay Dina Patil has made it clear that he is joining the defection group and siding with Shinde’s party.
Uddhav Thackeray, meanwhile, is touring the constituencies of the six MPs who are defecting. On Sunday, he visited the East Mumbai constituency. Thackeray is reportedly trying to ensure that party workers and office bearers in the constituencies remain with the party even if the MPs leave.
The six MPs who decided to defect are Sanjay Dina Patil, Sanjay Deshmukh, Sanjay Jadhav, Nagesh Ashtikar Patil, Bhausaheb Wakchoure and Omraje Nimbalkar.
Omraje Nimbalkar said that he had not yet made a decision after a Mumbai high court acquitted all eight of the people accused in his father’s murder 20 years ago. He was reportedly asked to defect by the Shinde party, promising that they would obtain a favourable court verdict for him.
