Amid the ongoing political turmoil in Maharashtra, rebel MLA Sanjay Shirsat penned a scathing letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, stating that Eknath Shinde went against the party only because several MLAs persuaded him to do so after facing "humiliation" at the hands of the CM's "middlemen." The letter was also tweeted by Shinde.
Here is the full, translated text of the letter to the chief minister:
I am writing this letter as an ode to Hindu Hridaysamrat Shri Balasaheb Thackeray. The doors to CM's official residence Barsgha opened in the true sense last evening for the common Shiv Sainiks. These doors were closed for the past two and a half years for us, even as MLAs. In order to reach to you, we had to constantly appease your middlemen, who have not even been chosen by the people of the state as their representatives.