Union minister for Shipping and Surface Transport Nitin Gadkari has said no regional party wants to have an alliance with the Shiv Sena.
Taking affront to Uddhav Thackeray’s talk of floating an alliance of regional parties, Mr. Gadkari said even if he wanted to align, none of the other regional parties, be it Lalu Prasad‘s RJD, Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party or Mamta Banerjee’s TMC, or the TRS. He said the Sena-BJP alliance was a result of helplessness of both parties and both benefited from it. He said he was hurt by Uddhav Thackeray’s charge about the Sena losing out due to the alliance.
He said the Sena lacked vision and believed only in percentages (a reference to cuts in contracts) from top to bottom. He said if the BJP was voted to power, they would transform the city in five years.
