Even after 1yr of BJP rule, ground realities same: Uddhav

Expressing disappointment over the one-year rule of the Narendra Modi government, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday voiced concern over ground realities remaining unchanged despite Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) securing the mandate on the plank of “Acche Din” (the good days).

Significantly, the long-time NDA ally has turned a critical lens to BJP’s work at an hour when the Centre is under attack from the Opposition both within and outside Parliament over a host of issues.

“Even 50 years are not enough to clean up the mess created by the previous (UPA) government. But a lot has to be done in the next five years to fulfil the aspirations of people. You (the BJP) had promised ‘Acche Din’ to people and thus cannot cheat them now,” Thackeray said in an interview in Shiv Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’.

He said even though governments have changed at the Centre and in Maharashtra, nothing much has changed on “ground”. “Every morning when we open a newspaper, we read the same news that once bored us... The thought which comes to our mind is that we used to read the same news before. Be it farmers’ suicide, protests of the unemployed people, crimes against women," he said.