Increasing the intensity of attack against the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Shiv Sena on Monday called it “a version of the Congress” in its editorial in party mouthpiece Saamna . The attack comes when political circles in Maharashtra are abuzz with talks about a possible alliance between the Congress and the Sena in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which will help the latter get a majority of 114 in the 227-member corporation.
“Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the BJP won’t align with the Congress, but has made his party ‘Congress’ by inducting many from the Congress-NCP into the BJP fold,” the editorial said.
The editorial further said: “That is why the Congress is preferable, but the question is where will this BJP-turned-Congress take Maharashtra and the country.”
The Sena also said the BJP leaders were making noise like empty vessels over the issue of who would become the Mumbai mayor.
A day after the BMC poll results were declared, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had said that the civic body’s mayor would be from his party.
