Mumbai: The alliance between Shiv Sena and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is almost all on the edge of getting over now.
Photo of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray.
Mumbai: The alliance between Shiv Sena and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is almost all on the edge of getting over now.
The Saffron Party may dump its partner sooner than later after the core committee of the party’s top brass, including chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, state party president Raosaheb Danve, education minister Vinod Tawde and rural development minister Pankaja Munde, met at revenue minister Chandrakant Patil’s house to discuss Sena’s continued barbs to the government’s decisions.
According to sources, the party has two options in front of it-either go for midterm polls or bring Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs, who are in touch with them, into their fold.
The Saffron Party currently has 122 members in the 288-member House-23 short of the majority mark. However, the party has support from 13 MLAs out of 20 MLAs from smaller parties and independents. In effect, the government just needs support of 10 more MLAs to prove majority without support from Sena’s 63 MLAs.
While the meeting took no concrete decision, the general consensus was to wait and watch Sena’s behaviour during vote on the Budget and also whether it joins Opposition sponsored statewide yatra demanding loan waiver for farmers.
On other hand, the Congress-NCP has jointly announced a protest march on March 29th that will held from Chandrapur in Vidarbha to Banda in Konkan.
When media persons asked Shiv Sena spokesman Harshal Pradhan, he denied the possibility of Sena joining the protest march. He added, “How can Sena join hands with those whose misrule of 15 years is driving farmers to suicides.”
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