‘80% Social Work, 20% Politics’: Amid Kunal Kamra Row, Shinde Says He Adopted Balasaheb’s Precept In Profession – News18
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Shinde’s remarks got here after the Maharashtra meeting handed a unanimous decision congratulating him for receiving the ’Adya Jagatguru Shri Sant Tukaram Maharaj Puraskar’
Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde (Picture: PTI)
Amid the continuing controversy over comic Kunal Kamra’s feedback, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday stated he had adopted the Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray’s precept of “80 per cent social work and 20 per cent politics” in his profession and pledged to proceed working for the widespread man.
Shinde’s remarks got here after the Maharashtra meeting handed a unanimous decision congratulating him for receiving the ’Adya Jagatguru Shri Sant Tukaram Maharaj Puraskar’, a prestigious award from the Warkari (devotees of Lord Vitthal) neighborhood, earlier this month.
The decision got here amid the continuing row over humorist Kunal Kamra’s alleged defamatory remarks in opposition to Shinde. Whereas Shinde has not but responded to the controversy, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has demanded an apology from Kamra for “insulting” his deputy.
In his reply to the decision congratulating him for getting the award instituted within the identify of Sant Tukaram, Shinde stated the award belongs to the state’s folks and he dedicates it to them.
“In my 40-year-long profession, I’ve adopted Balasaheb Thackeray’s precept of 80 per cent social work and 20 per cent politics and pledged to proceed working for the widespread man,” the deputy CM stated.
“It’s as a result of work I did as chief minister the state gave a landslide victory (to the Mahayuti comprising the BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP). We are going to proceed to work for the folks. Our duty has elevated, “Shinde stated, including, “I think about myself as a ‘widespread man’.”
“We have now to make the widespread man within the state a superman and enhance the folks’s lives,” he stated. The deputy CM additional said that the federal government and the opposition ought to work collectively for the folks.
The decision was moved by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Chandrakant Patil, who praised Shinde’s political journey and legislative work.
Kunal Kamra Row
A significant row erupted on Sunday night time after Kunal Kamra shared a video clip from his present on the Habitat Studio on the Unicontinental resort in Mumbai’s Khar space during which he will be heard referring Shinde as a “traitor” and went on to sing a parody of him.
The humorist used a modified model of a Hindi music from the film ’Dil Toh Pagal Hai’ to explain the 2022 rise up of Shinde in opposition to Uddhav Thackeray.
A number of Shiv Sena employees on Sunday night time gathered exterior Resort Unicontinental, the place the studio is situated. They allegedly ransacked the studio and the resort premises, the police stated.
The Mumbai police has additionally registered an FIR in opposition to Kamra for making defamatory remarks in opposition to Shinde, officers stated.
(With company inputs)
