{"id":8796,"date":"2017-01-27T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T13:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=8796"},"modified":"2017-01-27T13:37:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T13:37:31","slug":"sena-bjp-part-ways-for-mumbai-civic-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/sena-bjp-part-ways-for-mumbai-civic-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Sena, BJP part ways for Mumbai civic polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em>Opponent in Goa is now adversary in Maximum City<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Sujit Bhar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Shiv Sena and the BJP have parted ways, at least in the Mumbai municipal elections, to start with.<\/p>\n<p>The way things were developing, this was only expected. It was clear if the Goa election deals were read. The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), a former BJP ally, has formed an alliance with Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM), having fallen out with the party at the Centre.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, the GSM has an interesting background. Its chief, Subhash Velingkar, is a former RSS <em>chalak<\/em>, but was expelled from the RSS when he led a black flag protest against BJP president Amit Shah.<\/p>\n<p>In Goa, this is a BJP counterbalance. Not only that, even the Shiv Sena is in the fray. While the MGP has 26 candidates, the Manch and the Shiv Sena have fielded four each.<\/p>\n<p>So this was only expected. Yet, there was cheering from supporters as Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on January 26, Republic Day, made official the breaking away from the BJP for the municipal elections. The assembly and the centre have not been touched, though. The Sena shares power with the BJP in both places, and this has not been disturbed.<\/p>\n<p>Thackeray reportedly told his supporters in Goregaon: \u201cHow can I watch silently when you are intruding [into] my home? I need all the strength from Shiv Sainiks. In future, the Sena alone will ensure [the] saffron flag flies high in the state. I will not go to anyone asking and begging for an alliance. I will not survive on someone\u2019s leftover. From now on the Sena will contest municipal corporation and <em>zilla parishad<\/em> polls on its own. The battle is on and Sena activists are my strength who stand with me in unity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the party wasted 25 years by sticking with the BJP.<\/p>\n<p>The seat sharing talks went slowly, and when the Sena offered just 60 seats to the BJP, the national party saw it as an insult. There are a total 227 seats.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has been festering for long. The state BJP leadership had banned photos of gods and goddesses in government offices and the Sena did not take this lightly. Said Thackeray: \u201cThey (BJP) are hell-bent on removing photos. First Mahatma Gandhi was removed from a poster and instead Narendra Modi was installed. But Modi knows he is going to lose Uttar Pradesh elections. And as he knows, the BJP has remembered Ram, through Ram Mandir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said there was no transparency in the BJP. He himself has no problem with that, but \u201cwill that transparency be seen in the functioning of the state and the central governments?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has tweeted: \u201cPower is not an achievement but means of a development. Providing transparent administration is key of our government. Those who want, with them, those who do not want, without them. Change would certainly take place.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Opponent in Goa is now adversary in Maximum City By Sujit Bhar The Shiv Sena and the BJP have parted ways, at least in the Mumbai municipal elections, to start with. The way things were developing, this was only expected. It was clear if the Goa election deals were read. 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