TIL Desk/National/Mumbai/ The Shiv Sena on Saturday needled its warring ally BJP, which has failed to stake claim to form a government in Maharashtra, apparently due to lack of numbers, even a fortnight after the assembly poll verdict. The Sena and the BJP are locked in a bitter dispute over sharing of chief ministership in new government.
The dispute took turn for worse on Friday with caretaker chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray criticising each other of the issue of rotational chief ministership. “In Goa and Manipur, the BJP had shoved away single largest parties and formed governments. It is an open secret that this was done with the active cooperation of governors.
But in Maharashtra, despite being the single largest party, the BJP is not staking a claim,” the Sena said in an editorial in party mouthpiece “Saamana”. The edit once again appealed for formation of a government at the earliest. Term of the current Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra ends on November 9. “The state governor can invite the BJP, by virtue of it being the single largest party, to form a government, and the BJP shouldn’t lose such opportunity,” it said.
