Downplaying Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik’s “group up with BJP” letter, the party mouthpiece Saamana on Tuesday said that those who feel that this is an indication of change of power in Maharashtra are ‘kuchcha limbus’ (unripe lemons) in politics.
Sarnaik, in a letter to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, had said that the former allies patch up “before it is too late”, particularly for the various upcoming company elections, together with these of Mumbai and Thane.
The legislator from Thane’s Ovala-Majiwada constituency additional mentioned although the BJP and the Shiv Sena aren’t allies anymore, their leaders have good relations and that “we must always make use of this”.
His comments came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a one-on-one meeting with Thackeray at the former’s official residence in Delhi recently.
A report in Hindustan Times quoted a senior Shiv Sena leader as saying that the meeting lasted for half-an-hour, in which Thackeray spoke about political issues. He also sought Modi’s intervention to resolve the issue of nomination of 12 members to the Legislative Council, which Governor BS Koshyari has not cleared for eight months.
“Yes, we had a separate meeting. We may not be politically together, but that does not mean that we have snapped our relationship. I did not go to meet Nawaz Sharif. There is nothing wrong in meeting Modiji in person. Tomorrow, even tell my colleagues and go to meet him,” Thackeray had mentioned.
Reacting to the assembly elevating eyebrows, Sena mentioned in Saamana, “There is nothing unsuitable in the primary place, for it to be amended by assembly the PM Modi. Maharashtra authorities has good relations with the prime minister. There is nothing unsuitable in it. He is the supreme chief in a parliamentary democracy.”
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