Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday rejected reports that seat-sharing talks with BJP for the Maharashtra assembly elections have been called off.
Udhhav told reporters that the talks were still on, and that his party would stick to its demand for at least 150 seats in 288-member Maharashtra assembly. The BJP is reportedly insisiting that both parties contest 135 each."BJP had mission 272, what's wrong if we have mission 150,"Uddhav said adding that he doesn't want to break the alliance with the BJP as it is for the cause of Hindutva.
"Alliance with BJP isn't just for power, it's for Maharashtra," he said
Uddhav questions 'Modi wave'
Earlier the BJP on Sunday said the seat-sharing talks had hit a stalemate after the Sena chief, Uddhav Thackeray, questioned the much-talked-about 'Modi wave' in an interview to a TV channel.
State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Devendra Fadanvis, while talking to Hindustan Times, confirmed the development.
"There is huge discontent among our rank and file over the statements made by the Sena leadership against our leader, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a television programme on Saturday.
"This has reached our higher-ups. Now, we have decided that we will not make any effort anymore to talk to them on seat-sharing," Fadanvis said, adding it was up to the Sena to make the next move.
The tough stands of the BJP and the Sena are the latest in a series of ahead of the Maharashtra assembly elections slated for October 15 and casts doubts on the future of the alliance which seemed frontrunner in the polls following its spectacular showing in the April-May Lok Sabha elections.
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