Rebel Shiv Sena MLAs have no guts to come out of Guwahati hotel: Sanjay Raut after Uddhav's re-conciliatory note

Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday hit out at the Eknath Shinde camp, saying that the rebel MLAs staying in Guwahati have no guts to come out of the Radisson Blu hotel. Raut's latest rhetoric comes as Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray today tried to strike a reconciliatory note and appealed to the Sena dissidents to return to Mumbai and talk to him, saying it's not "too late".

Raut has been vociferously attacking the rebel Shiv Sena MLAs camping in Guwahati. He termed the dissidents as 'Jahil' (uneducated) who are like the "walking dead."

"'Jahalat' (lack of education) is a kind of death and 'Jahil' (uneducated) people are like the walking dead," Raut said in a tweet quoting Imam Ali.

On June 27, Sanjay Raut stoked a huge controversy with his comments against the rebels party MLAs, saying that "Their bodies are alive, but their soul is dead, it is a way of speaking in Maharashtra. What wrong did I say? Those who stay in a party for 40 years and then run away, their souls are dead, they do not have anything left in them, these are the lines said by Dr Ram Manohar Lohia. I didn't want to hurt anyone's sentiment, I just said the truth."

Meanwhile, Uddhav Thackeray today appealed to the Shinde camp to return to Maharashtra and have a word with him so that confusions can be removed. "It is not too late. I appeal to you to return and sit with me and remove the confusion (created by your actions) among Shiv Sainiks and the public," a statement by Thackeray's aide quoted him as saying.