Shiv Sena sounds death knell for alliance with BJP, decides to contest Assembly and LS polls alone
Mumbai, Jan 23 (IBNS) : Coming closer to snapping their strained alliance with the BJP, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday decided to go it alone in the pcoming Maharashtra assembly polls as well as the Lok Sabha elections scheduled in 2019, media reports said.
Sena leader Sanjay Raut moved a resolution in this regard at the party's national executive committee meeting in Mumbai and it was passed unanimously.
"The BJP allied with the Sena in the name of Hindutva and the Sena kept patience for Hindutva. However, the BJP in the last three years has been demoralising theSena and using power to do so," the reports quoted Raut as saying at the meeting.
This is the latest and most significant move of the Sena distancing itself with the BJP and party leaders time and again spoke about the need to end the coalition.
Earlier, Sena's youth wing head Aaditya Thackeray had threatened to walk out of the Maharashtra government, while party president Uddhav Thackeray too had hinted at severing ties with the BJP, which the Sena says has failed to check the rising prices of petrol and diesel.
The Sena's decision may have stemmed from the results of the 2017 2017 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls in which the party fought it alone and emerged as the single largest party, bagging 84 seats in the 227-strong civic body as against the BJP's tally of 82.
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