Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut wants June 20 to be declared as ‘World Traitors Day’ as on this day last year around 40 lawmakers brought down Maharashtra's ruling Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress government. He wrote to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres demanding the same.
Over the course of 10 days, the 40 politicians left the then unified Sena party and allied with rebel leader Eknath Shinde. Not only this, they forced the then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to quit. Following this, Shinde was then installed as the new chief minister and the BJP's Devendra Fadnavis was persuaded to become his deputy.
Raut accused the BJP of having paid each rebel lawmaker ₹50 crore to defect. Raut wrote, “… I am appealing to you to make June 20 as World Traitors Day just as June 21 is observed as World Yoga Day. This must be done so that (the) world remembers traitors.”
"On June 20, a huge group of 40 legislators from our Shiv Sena left us after being instigated by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Each of them is said to have taken ₹50 crores to defect. The BJP used all their might to ensure that (the) Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra fell."
"The 40 MLAs who stabbed us were led by a leading legislator Mr Eknath Shinde (who is now the CM of Maharashtra) … with them 10 more independent (MLAs) supporting (the) MVA government (also) left us," Raut wrote in his capacity as an Indian parliamentarian.
PUBLIC DEMAND!@UN@antonioguterres@UNinIndia @PMOIndia @UNICEFIndia @BJP4India @AUThackeray @unfoundation @UNHumanRights pic.twitter.com/OJ5qu28oY2
— Sanjay Raut (@rautsanjay61) June 20, 2023
Raut tweeted the letter shortly after prime minister Narendra Modi left for his six-day State visit to the United States and Egypt.
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