TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah would call on Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray at the latter’s residence in Mumbai on Wednesday, a move which comes days after the bickering allies contested the Palghar by-poll separately. The move is being seen as an attempt by the BJP to reach out the sulking ally which has openly criticised senior BJP leaders.
“Amit Shah sought time to meet Uddhav ji. Accordingly, an appointment of tomorrow (Wednesday) evening has been given to him,” Sena MP Sanjay Raut said. He, however, questioned the need for Shah to meet Thackeray after a gap of four years.
“We showed that we can fight alone when we contested the Palghar by-poll. We may have lost, however, the message has been sent across. We received lakhs of votes (in Palghar) where we had never contested an election,” Raut pointed out while talking to reporters in Mumbai.
In the May 28 Lok Sabha by-poll, the Sena candidate, Shrinivas Wanaga, secured 2,43,210 votes but lost to BJP’s Rajendra Gavitt by a margin of 29,572 votes. Raut said National Democratic Alliance members were one after the other deserting the BJP. There was angst against the BJP, thus the party might have started a reconciliatory measure, he said.
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