Mumbai: While Delhi is yours, Maharashtra is ours, Shiv Sena says BJP Sena is the giver and you (BJP) are the taker, says Uddhav Thackeray after proposing a ‘final’ formula of 151 seats
Seat-sharing talks between Sena and the BJP for the 15 October state legislative assembly elections are deadlocked, after the BJP’s demand for a higher seat share in the alliance was fiercely resisted by the Sena.
The Saamna article cites party president Uddhav Thackeray as saying, After I rejected their offer of contesting on 135 seats each by Sena and BJP, BJP’s election in-charge Om Prakash Mathur tried to give me a counter-offer.
But I cut him short and reminded him that Sena is the giver and you (BJP) are the taker; so please don’t try to tell me how many seats Sena can contest. The Sena on Sunday proposed a “final formula of 151 seats for itself, 119 for BJP and 18 for smaller partners of the Mahayuti or grand alliance. Despite the increasing acrimony, both parties insist that they are hopeful of saving the alliance.
Mathur is expected to meet Thackeray at his residence in Mumbai later this afternoon. However, a senior BJP leader from Maharashtra, who declined to be identified, lamented, “Talks are dragging on as no party wants to be seen as the home-breaker. No one has guts to tell the king that his pet parrot is dead; so all courtiers are saying, he is sleeping, he has just closed his eyes and so on.
Bureau Report
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