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Mumbai
A day after Bharatiya Janta Party’s (BJP) National President Jagat Prakash Nadda exhalted the leaders and workers from his party in Maharashtra to be determined to bring government on its own strength in the state, senior party leader and Maharashtra state president Chandrakant Patil today said that it can go along with the Shiv Sena to form a government in future.
Patil’s overtures is seen as a step towards reconciliation between the two parties who turned into adversaries from ally after the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly Election, where the BJP emerged as the single largest party with 105 seats. Shiv Sena emerged second with 56 seats, while, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress got 54 and 44 seats respectively.
As the story unfolded, Shiv Sena forged alliance with the NCP and Congress after the talks with BJP did not materialise over sharing of chief minister’s post for two and a half years after much deliberation.
“In the interest of Maharashtra, if Centre (central leadership of BJP) and Uddhav ji decides then both parties can come together”, the state unit chief of BJP said.
He however said that a proposal in this regard should come from Shiv Sena (about forging an alliance). “(Ideally) we should have been together in the government. We can come together to form the government, but we will contest election separately and not as an alliance”, Patil said. He further said, he does not want to send any message to Shiv Sena.
Taking potshots at Sanjay Raut, senior Shiv Sena leader and executive editor of ‘Saamana’, party’s mouthpiece, Patil said, “He has a newspaper with him and it is being run by various news channels”.
