In a recent editorial, Saamana, the Shiv Sena mouthpiece run by Uddhav Thackeray, compared the opposition and the BJP to the Wagner group’s uprising against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The connection was strange because Wagner is a mercenary organisation made up of ex-convicts hired from Russian jails.
The Wagner group was referred to as “the defender of democracy” in the Saamana editorial, which also compared it to India’s opposition parties. It said that the Opposition gathered in Patna to challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the same time as Yevgeny Prigozhin of the Wagner rebelled against Putin.
“Modi-Shah have prepared a large number of mercenaries to drum up victory, to pressurize the voters,” the Shiv Sena mouthpiece read.
It continued by stating that Russia was currently showing a clear example of this. The statement read, “Like Putin, Modi-Shah are trying to bring dictatorship, complete authoritarianism.”
The editorial said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had embarrassed himself by speaking in “improper English” during his tour to the US.
“It was clearly visible that the ground slipped from under the feet of Prime Minister Modi due to the questions asked in the press conference on India’s democracy, Constitution, and attack on minorities,” it said.
Sanjay Raut, the leader of the Shiv Sena (UBT), similarly compared the state of affairs in Maharashtra to a Wager group, alluding to the coalition between the BJP and the Shiv Sena (Shinde faction). He claimed that the Wagner gang, known as the “rented army” in Russia, and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde were comparable. “They will also strike back on you (BJP) soon. They belong to no one,” he said.
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