Now, ‘ally’ Uddhav Thackeray uses ‘chowkidar chor hai’ slogan to attack Narendra Modi  

Uddhav Thackeray.

Uddhav Thackeray, the Shiv Sena chief, on Monday, repeated the Congress’s frequently made jibe of “chowkidar chor hai (watchman is thief)” a veiled attack on the BJP and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Earlier the Congress president, Rahul Gandhi, has been using the same jibe at Modi to claim irregularities and favouritism in the Rafale deal

Addressing a rally in the Solapur district, Thackeray used the slogan in a different context while narrating an incident. He said, “In one of the state tours, a farmer showed me a pest-infested lime tree. The lime tree is used to make pesticides, but this was a plant that was infested with pest. The farmer told me that for the first time in his lifetime, he had seen a lime tree getting infested, which they have been using to make pesticides. I had told him that now, days have changed. Security persons have become thieves.”

Thackeray and his party have been often seen criticizing the BJP and its top leaders, including Modi, on a lot of issues. However, this was perhaps the first time a BJP ally has publicly made the “chowkidar chor hai” taunt.

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