BMC polls: Uddhav, BJP leaders indicate post-poll alliance

February 23, 2017 22:13

With Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections throwing no clear winner as the BJP has won 82 seats and the Shiv Sena 84, senior BJP leader Chandrakant Patil said that both the parties should join hands in Mumbai.

"Enough of bitterness. Now, it's time to come together again," Patil, minister in Devendra Fadnavis-led ministry said, indicating that the bickering allies in the state government could come together after today's fractured

verdict.

Even Union minister Uma Bharti thinks that the BJP ans Sena should come together in the BMC.

"BJP aur Shiv Sena ka toh bohot purana pyaar hai, iss pyaar se koi na koi parinaam nikal hi aayga," she said.

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray also asserted that the city mayor would be from the party, an indication that he could go for a hard bargain if the two saffron parties were to come together again.

"Is there any other option than the two parties coming together, given the number of seats each one has bagged? Will they (Shiv Sena) take support of Congress?" said Patil, known to have excellent rapport with the central BJP leadership.

"Instead of indulging in unscientific things, like taking Congress along, both the parties should do things which are scientific and come together to govern Mumbai," Patil said.

"Devendra Fadnavis and Uddhav Thackeray should decide the power-sharing formula. Both are good friends," the minister said.

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