Mumbai, Oct. 20 -- Launching a scathing attack on the Opposition, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde on Tuesday declared that his party has shelved its Dussehra festivities to stand firmly with drought-hit farmers, asserting that they are grassroots workers who fill stomachs rather than peddle hollow rhetoric.
Addressing the party's grand Dussehra rally at NESCO Exhibition Center in Goregaon, Shinde announced the launch of the 'Bhagwa Gheun Khandyavar, Shivsainik Disel Bandhavar' (Saffron on the shoulder, Shivsainik in the fields) campaign.
With large parts of Maharashtra reeling under severe drought conditions, he emphasized that the Shiv Sena would not allow farmers' Diwali to be overshadowed by despair...