Navnath Ban tells Raut to hold his march at Matoshree over Gokul dispute

A new turn has come in the issue of the government-appointed administrator at Gokul. Satej Patil has begun to fear that Gokul's control will slip out of his hands because of this administrator. For this reason, the Gokul dispute has now reached court.

On the dispute, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut said the march should not be held only in Kolhapur. According to Raut, the march should be taken to the Varsha bungalow, to Raj Bhavan and also to the Mantralaya in Maharashtra. He asked how a verdict given by the people could be rejected, and how power could be handed once again to those who had lost. Raut said this could happen only in our country. He said the Kolhapur decision was unfortunate for democracy. In this matter, he targeted Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

BJP leader Navnath Ban responded to Raut's remarks in a video. Ban said Raut talks of a march on Varsha, but if a march is to be held, it should begin from Matoshree. He alleged that Uddhav Thackeray killed democracy in 2019 and that the practice of strangling democracy began that same year. Ban said the majority was with the BJP-led Mahayuti, yet Uddhav Thackeray rejected it and chose to sit with the Congress. Therefore, in Ban's words, the march should be held at Matoshree rather than Varsha.

On Gokul, Ban said power would be formed there in a democratic manner and democracy would be respected. According to him, the members in Gokul have been elected through the democratic route, power will go to them, and Raut should not worry about it. Ban also said that if Raut wants to hold a march to save democracy and the mantra of democracy, he should hold it at Matoshree. He repeated that Uddhav Thackeray had started the strangling of democracy.