Indicating its unwillingness towards a post-poll alliance with BJP in the country’s richest civic body, Shiv Sena on Friday asserted that the civic body’s mayor will be from their party and accused its estranged ally of using deceitful means to destabilise them.
Sena said its fight with the saffron party will continue and it will keep walking on the difficult path, whatever be the consequences.
The BJP yesterday scored a resounding victory in the Maharashtra civil polls emerging as the largest party in eight of the 10 municipal corporations while finishing a close second to bellicose ally Shiv Sena, which won 84 seats, in the latter’s Mumbai bastion.
A day after the verdict, the Sena, in an editorial in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ claimed that BJP used the entire state machinery and all its might of Central leadership to secure unprecedented results in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and other local body polls.
“The Sena has been ruling the BMC from the last 25 years. They (the BJP) used deceitful means to destabilise our rule. This has never happened before when the Congress ruled the state,” it charged.
“The BJP used all that it had for the BMC polls. But, despite the BJP getting 82 seats, the Mayor will be from Shiv Sena only,” the Sena proclaimed.
In the counting of votes held yesterday for the BMC, the Shiv Sena got 84 seats, BJP secured 82 seats, Congress was relegated to the third position with 31 seats, whereas the NCP and Raj Thackeray’s MNS got 9 and 7 seats, respectively.
