RSS says it is up to BJP to decide whose support it wants

Update: 2014-10-21 22:54 GMT
RSS on Monday said it is up to the BJP to decide as to whose support it should take to form a government in Maharashtra where assembly polls have thrown up a hung House with the party falling short of a majority.

Speaking to reporters after the conclusion of a three-day conclave here, RSS general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi said the issue can be decided by BJP alone.

He was asked if the Sangh would be happy if the BJP allies with the NCP which they had been calling ‘corrupt’ in the past.

‘We have no role in it, it is up to the party to accept it or not. And if some party wants to give their support than it is upto that party to decide and think about it,’ he said.

Asked if the Sangh would support the decision to take support from that party, he insisted, ‘We don’t have any role in it... This is a political issue and political party leaders are mature and they will decide.’

NCP has extended crucial ‘outside support’ to BJP in Maharashtra. Though Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has made it clear that his party will not lend unsolicited support to BJP in forming the government, he had reportedly called up prime minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah to congratulate them on the electoral victories in Maharashtra and Haryana.

Joshi said BJP’s victory in Haryana and Maharashtra polls shows that the wave of change, which started from Lok Sabha polls, was still going on.

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