Explained: Who is Narayan Rane? Here’s everything that happened yet, after his controversial said on Uddhav Thackeray

In the last seven years of the Narendra Modi government, Narayan Rane is the first minister who is arrested. Narayan Rane became cabinet minister recently and was still caught into many controversies immediately.

Who is Narayan Rane?

Narayan Rane is an Ex-Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Ex-Shivsena leader. After the clashes with Uddhav Thackeray, Narayan Rane left Shivsena and joined Congress. He was a minister in Vilasrao Deshmukh and Prithviraj Chavan’s government. Later because of his ambitions to become the Chief Minister he left Congress and formed his own party ‘Swabhiman Paksha’. He lost the election twice against Shivsena and then later joined BJP. Recently he became a cabinet minister in Narendra Modi’s government.

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Why was Narayan Rane arrested?

Recently Rane passed a controversial comment on Chief Minister Udhav Thackeray. While referring to the incident of Independence day, Narayan Rane said that he would have slapped Uddhav Thackeray because he wrongly mentioned an independence day.

This remark created a huge controversy and led to a protest by Shivsena. Shivsena started protesting all over Maharashtra and tried blocking Narayan Rane’s way in his ‘Jan Ashirvad Yatra’. After his controversial statement about Uddhav Thackeray, Several FIR’s were filed against Narayan Rane for breaking COVID19 protocol and also against his remarks over CM.

On 24th August 2021, Narayan Rane was carrying his public gathering meeting under his ‘Jan Ashirvad Yatra’ in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, when Shivsena started protesting against him across the state. Also, Mahavikas Aghadi Government was planning to take action against him and all the leaders were condemning his statement.

In the morning Nasik police ordered them to arrest him under several IPC and left Nasik to Ratnagiri to arrest him. Clashes among Shivsena and BJP members were going on everywhere throughout the state. Nasik police arrested Mr Rane in Ratnagiri and took him to Mahad court for further proceedings.

Six-hour high voltage drama was going on throughout the whole day. From Narayan Rane’s side, his lawyer claimed how this arrest is illegal and without any notice. From the Government side, their lawyer and police asked for seven days custody. But after both, sides’ arguments court gave bail to Narayan Rane and released him late at night.

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Political Analysts says:

These clashes among Rane and Shivsena are going on for many years. He lost elections twice but still, BJP took him to utilize his political arena against BJP. Mostly these clashes are happening over BMC elections in Mumbai. Narayan Rane as a senior and aggressive leader can be a good option for BJP to stand against Shivsena. Till BMC election these clashes will be seen more.