Last offer? BJP asks Sena to give seats it never won
21 Sept 2014 4:42 AM IST
The core committee of BJP in Mumbai after its meeting chaired by state president Devendra Fadnavis and senior party leader Sudhir Mungantiwar sent the proposal to the Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and is awaiting his response.
Earlier, Thackeray had dismissed BJP’s national president Amit Shah’s suggestion for protecting BJP’s self-esteem in sharing seats and snubbed him by asking the ally to take 119 seats as per the old formula.
On Friday, the BJP claimed that they want the alliance with the Sena to continue but asked political partner to concede the seats it has never won. ‘We want the 25-year-old alliance between the Shiv Sena and the BJP to continue and the new proposal will be sent to Shiv Sena,’ said BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar.
‘The formula of 119 seats is old now. There are 59 seats which the Sena has not won and 19 seats which BJP has not won in the last 25 years,’ Mungantiwar added.
BJP leaders said that they have sacrifices to ensure the alliance with Shiv Sena stays intact but it should not be the one to do so every time.
‘Our objective is to remove the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance. We will decide on who will be chief minister after the results,’ he added.
‘We have always kept a large heart in the past to save the alliance. When Shiv Sena wanted to project Sharad Pawar as Prime Minister, we did not object. Similarly, when they decided to support the candidatures of Pratibha Patil and Pranab Mukherjee for President, we relented in the interest of our partnership and for the people of the state,’ Mungantiwar said.
‘In Maharashtra, Shiv Sena is the party which gives (seats) and not the one that asks (for seats). It was a bigger party in the state and will remain so,’ party spokesperson and MP Sanjay Raut told the media.
‘Shiv Sena had been in Maharashtra politics even before BJP was born. It doesn’t matter whether there is an alliance or not. The chief minister will be from Shiv Sena,’ he added.
Raut said that a meeting of the party’s executive has been called on 21 September which will be attended by all MPs and MLAs where Thackeray will announce the final decision on alliance with the BJP.
Earlier, Thackeray had dismissed BJP’s national president Amit Shah’s suggestion for protecting BJP’s self-esteem in sharing seats and snubbed him by asking the ally to take 119 seats as per the old formula.
On Friday, the BJP claimed that they want the alliance with the Sena to continue but asked political partner to concede the seats it has never won. ‘We want the 25-year-old alliance between the Shiv Sena and the BJP to continue and the new proposal will be sent to Shiv Sena,’ said BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar.
‘The formula of 119 seats is old now. There are 59 seats which the Sena has not won and 19 seats which BJP has not won in the last 25 years,’ Mungantiwar added.
BJP leaders said that they have sacrifices to ensure the alliance with Shiv Sena stays intact but it should not be the one to do so every time.
‘Our objective is to remove the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance. We will decide on who will be chief minister after the results,’ he added.
‘We have always kept a large heart in the past to save the alliance. When Shiv Sena wanted to project Sharad Pawar as Prime Minister, we did not object. Similarly, when they decided to support the candidatures of Pratibha Patil and Pranab Mukherjee for President, we relented in the interest of our partnership and for the people of the state,’ Mungantiwar said.
‘In Maharashtra, Shiv Sena is the party which gives (seats) and not the one that asks (for seats). It was a bigger party in the state and will remain so,’ party spokesperson and MP Sanjay Raut told the media.
‘Shiv Sena had been in Maharashtra politics even before BJP was born. It doesn’t matter whether there is an alliance or not. The chief minister will be from Shiv Sena,’ he added.
Raut said that a meeting of the party’s executive has been called on 21 September which will be attended by all MPs and MLAs where Thackeray will announce the final decision on alliance with the BJP.
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