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An embattled Shiv Sena on Monday ruled out any support for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Maharashtra Assembly, even as it launched a scathing attack against former ally Bharatiya Janata Party for taking the support of Nationalist Congress Party.
In its mouthpiece publication Saamnaa, the Sena on Monday told the BJP not to look to it any more for support to achieve government's stability.
After extending uninvited extended support to the BJP government, NCP chief Sharad Pawar last week took a broom in his hands in a gesture signalling a new found bonhomie between the two parties. Incidentally, Shiv Sena failed to strike a deal with BJP to join the government but has assumed the post of leader of opposition in the state. In the run up to the elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had referred to the NCP as a ‘Natural Corrupt Party’.
The Sena said it would not indulge in self-pity nor will it be sorry, but would continue to march with the fighting spirit of the tiger, which is also its mascot. On the second death anniversary of Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, the editorial claimed that BJP has been abused and attacked more than the 15-year Congress-NCP government, particularly after the manner in which the November 12 trust vote was passed in the state assembly. During the first week after the government was formed, it has behaved against the people's hopes and aspirations, the Sena said.
The editorial also said the assembly results have shown that people from Gujarat, Rajasthan, south and north India, who were helped by Bal Thackeray in difficult times, forgot what the Sena had done for them and voted for the BJP instead.
Further, the Sena also targeted BJP saying that some of the ministers from the state cabinet were bent upon reducing the importance of Mumbai as India's commercial and financial capital.
