According to Sanjay Raut, MVA is Maharashtra's political future; there is no possibility for a Sena-BJP reunion

Sanjay Raut, a Shiv Sena MP, reiterated in his weekly column Rokhthok in the party newspaper Saamna on Sunday that there is no possibility for a reconciliation between the Shiv Sena and the BJP in Maharashtra, claiming that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) represents the state's political destiny. He explained that rumours of an "under the table pact" to bring the BJP and the Sena together are false.

 

Uddhav Thackeray, the Chief Minister and Shiv Sena President, gave a suitable response to the BJP's criticism of him over his sickness, according to Raut, in his address to Shiv Sainiks on January 23. "The message from his speech was that the Maha Vikas Aghadi, which includes the Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress, is Maharashtra's political future, and there is no reality in rumours that the Shiv Sena and BJP were working out an under-the-table arrangement and that they could reunite," Raut added.

 

According to him, Thackeray's speech and Leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnavis' (BJP) rejoinder have clarified the state's politics and left no room for ambiguity. Fadnavis had previously stated that the Shiv Sena grew politically while it was allied with the BJP. "After Fadnavis' reaction, there is no chance of a Shiv Sena-BJP reunion," said Raut, who has been at the vanguard of the BJP's onslaught on Thackeray and the MVA administration.

 

Raut slammed Fadnavis for suggesting that the Shiv Sena grew politically as a result of the BJP. The Sena was founded in 1966, whereas the BJP was founded in 1980, according to Raut. "What matters more than one's year of birth is what one has accomplished," he stated.

 

 

In a caustic remark, Raut remarked that the MVA is here to stay and that the BJP will have to spend many years around the Raj Bhavan, referring to the BJP contacting the Governor with complaints about the state government. The MVA outperformed the BJP in the recently held Nagar Panchayat elections, according to Raut, and these results should serve as a warning to both the MVA and the BJP. "The BJP won more seats, but the MVA parties as a group outperformed the BJP.

 

"This demonstrates that the MVA's majority of 170 seats in the 288-member State Assembly will remain in place regardless of the outcome of the state Assembly elections," he said. "This is Maharashtra's thinking," he said. Meanwhile, the BJP has slammed the Shiv Sena, claiming that the party has morphed into the Sonia Sena. Former Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar claimed that the BJP had allied with the Hindutva-supporting Shiv Sena led by Balasaheb Thackeray.

 

 

 

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