MUMBAI, Oct. 21 -- Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said that fed up with 12 years of bad governance and the arrogant reign of PM Narendra Modi and union home minister Amit Shah, the country was awakening, as evidenced by the anger in Gen Z and other citizens. He declared that this would result in the duo's ouster, and that his party and Maharashtra would "shine in this battle of regime change". The Sena (UBT) chief was speaking at the party's Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park. Hitting out at the BJP for "running campaigns to confuse people", he said his party's biggest mistake was forging an alliance with it in 1989. "We lost 25 years in alliance with these people," he said. "They used the Hindutva promoted by Bal Thackeray and later dumped our party." Thackeray also criticised the BJP for "stealing votes and attacking constitutional institutions" and dubbing all those who expressed anger against them as cockroaches and Urban Naxals. "The Gen Z kids protesting against the BJP regime and taking out a flag march are not terrorists or Naxals but revolutionaries," he said. "The young revolutionaries who fought against British rule were also the age of the Gen Z protestors as were Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and his colleagues." Thackeray also slammed the SIR process for deleting around 130 million names from the voter list and questioned sarcastically if all those 130 million were Bangladeshi. The Sena (UBT) chief hit out at the police for their brutal handling of students and protestors, and slammed RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for presuming to preach to Gen Z. "I have no fight with the RSS but want to ask if its anger and opposition to the Indian tricolour still continues," he said. "The police brutally handled young protestors and misbehaved with girls, but Bhagwat is teaching decorum and civilised manners to Gen Z." Citing the recent incident of firing at actor Tiger Shroff, allegedly by members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, Thackeray asked the government how the attackers reached the spot with weapons. "Bishnoi is in a Gujarat jail with the blessings of union home minister Amit Shah. If CM Fadnavis has the guts, bring him to Maharashtra for justice. But Fadnavis is busy defaming Maharashtra by presenting an affidavit in court that Maharashtra is full of Urban Naxals." The BJP's chief spokesperson Navnath Ban strongly criticised Thackeray for his statements on a regime change. "Before talking about a change of power, Uddhav Thackeray should focus on saving his own party and keeping his MLAs together," he said....