In the wake of the BJP preparing to form a minority government in Maharashtra, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said that if their alliance with the Shiv Sena would have ended at least a fortnight before the actual demise of the combine, then his party might have won clear majority in the assembly polls.

"We did not want to break the alliance with Shiv Sena as it was our very old ally. When it broke, people said that the BJP would get around 70-75 seats, but results were there for everyone to see. If the pact would have broken 10-15 more days earlier, then BJP might have got a majority on its own," the Home Minister said addressing a Karyakarta Sankalp Adhiveshan in Bhopal.

The former BJP President said that merely after five months after the Lok Sabha polls, people have again reposed faith in the BJP by bringing it to power for the first time in Haryana and Maharashtra in a historic manner.