The back and forth between Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party over formation of a new government in Maharashtra continued on Tuesday.
Senior Shiv Sena leader and member of Parliament Sanjay Raut said that there are “other options” if the BJP continues to delay forming a government. “Uddhav Thackeray ji has said that we have other options too but we don’t want to do the sin of accepting that alternative. Shiv Sena has always done politics of truth, we are not hungry for power,” Raut was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
BJP and Shiv Sena have a pre-poll alliance in Maharashtra. BJP contested in 164 seats of the 288-member assembly and won 105 while Sena contested 124 seats and won 56.
Raut also took a swipe at BJP’s alliance with Dushyant Chautala’s Jananayak Janata Party (JJP) to form a government in Haryana.
Prasanta Patnaik