BJP hints at a post-poll alliance with Sena ahead of Maha civic results
February 22, 2017 21:40
On the eve of the counting of votes for the fiercely-fought Maharashtra civic elections, the BJP today indicated it was not averse to a post-poll tie-up with Shiv Sena in cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
"There are no ideological differences between BJP and Shiv Sena," Maharashtra BJP president Raosaheb Danve told reporters in Mumbai.
"We tried our best to have an alliance with Shiv Sena. But we have differences on some technical grounds. We began (alliance) talks on the issue of transparency (in BMC administration). However, the alliance could not take place on the issue of transparency," Danve said.
"The BJP is confident that tomorrow, when results are declared, it will come to power in BMC with full majority," he said.
"The BJP will come to power in 11 zilla parishads (out of the 25, which went to polls) and six municipal corporations (of the ten, where elections were held)," Danve said.
About 56 per cent voters had yesterday exercised their franchise across 10 municipal corporations in Maharashtra, including for the all-important Mumbai civic body BMC which recorded a 55 per cent turn-out.
The BJP and its bickering ally in the state government, Shiv Sena, who could not form an alliance for the civic polls in the megapolis or elsewhere this time, fought keenly, lashing out freely at each other during the bitter campaign.
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