Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde on Tuesday described the Congress as a “batter” who is trying to get the other partners of the INDIA bloc “run out”.

Independent MP from Maharashtra’s Sangli, Vishal Patil, also resorted to cricket lexicon to take a swipe at the Mahayuti government, saying that after winning the assembly poll, the alliance got the “12th man” to run the government.

Participating in a discussion on the Union Budget in Lok Sabha, Shinde said, “The INDIA bloc is like a cricket team that has a batter named the Congress who is bent on getting others run out.”

Shinde also lauded the Union Budget saying, “If we call (PM Narendra) Modi ji the captain of Team India then Nirmala Sitharaman is its winning all-rounder.”

In a swipe at BJP leader and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, Patil said, “In the past, people would show the photograph of an eligible person and then get a useless person married in his place. This is what has happened in Maharashtra, they showed the face of Eknath Shinde and after the results some other person became the ‘groom’.”

“The man of the match was made the 12th man and the 12th man is now running the government after becoming the captain,” he said.