Ahmedabad: The Shiv Sena, an ally of the BJP, has decided to field its candidates from 50-75 seats in next month's Gujarat Assembly polls, a senior party leader said on Thursday.
The party also maintained it will not enter into alliance with any party in Gujarat, including the BJP. The Uddhav Thackeray-led party had contested around 40 seats in the 2012 Assembly elections in Gujarat, but failed to open its account in the state where the BJP is in power for over two decades. The state has 182 Assembly seats. Senior Sena leader and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Desai told reporters here that the party's national executive has decided to contest the Assembly polls in Gujarat. "The party's national executive met recently and decided that we will contest the Gujarat Assembly elections. We have decided to field candidates from 50-75 seats," he said.