What is the stand of Shiv Sena (UBT) on women's respect, asks Shaina NC

CM Eknath Shindeled Shiv Sena candidate from Mumbais Mumbadevi constituency for Maharashtra Assembly election 2024 Shaina NC on Saturday demanded answers from the Shiv Sena UBT on its official stand referring to its MP Arvind Sawants alleged derogatory remarks against her reported the PTIUnder pressure Arvind Sawant apologised after 30 hours while his party colleague Sanjay Raut justifies me being dismissed as an imported maal Shaina NC told a press conferenceShaina NC formerly with the BJP claimed that her rival candidate from Congress Amin Patel laughed when Arvind Sawant made the objectionable commentWould he react the same way if the remark was directed at a woman from his religion or community she askedThe Shiv Sena UBT should spell out its stand on womens respect she saidArvind Sawant on Saturday apologised for his alleged insulting remark targeted at Shaina NC a day after a case was registered against him in this connectionShaina NC said that she was a ladki bahin dear sister to Arvind Sawant when he contested the Mumbai South Lok Sabha seat in 2014 much before the division in the Bal Thackerayfounded Shiv Sena according to the PTII campaigned for him extensively in south Mumbai and Mumbadevi and now I am called an imported maal I am a resident of south Mumbai and Mumbadevi is my mothers home she saidIf an apology has to be given it should be to goddess Mumbadevi I am her daughterI will fight and win she saidShaina NC also questioned the silence of Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA leaders including Supriya Sule of NCP SP and Priyanka Chaturvedi of Sena UBTThe cause of women is bigger than party politics I have always stood by women irrespective of party politics she saidThe Sharad Pawarled NCP SP and Congress are partners of Uddhav Thackerayheaded Sena UBT in the opposition bloc MVACongress leader Priyanka Gandhi says Ladki Hoon Lad Sakti Hoon I am a girl and I can fight Why are the opposition leaders quiet now Why are Sharad Pawar Uddhav Thackeray and Nana Patole of Congress not reacting she asked as per the PTIIf Sanjay Raut claims that Sawant didnt say anything wrong what is the official stand of Sena UBT and MVA on womens respect she askedMaal is objectification It means you are the property of someone she said adding that Chief Minister Eknath Shinde who heads the Shiv Sena has empowered women through the Ladki Bahin schemeIn Mumbadevi there are 40000 beneficiaries of whom 15000 are Muslims she saidThe Shiv Sena candidate said discourse should be on issues in an electionWhat has happened to Kamathipura redevelopment redevelopment of chawls and cluster redevelopment in Mumbadevi she askedShe also wondered if Shiv Sena UBT leader and former state minister Aaditya Thackeray who lives in Bandra and contests from Worli is not an outsiderMeanwhile NCP SP chief Sharad Pawar said in Baramati in Pune district that he didnt think there was any personal attack referring to the controversyHowever one should take care while talking he advised the news agency reportedwith PTI inputs