Uddhav dares BJP to resign from Maharashtra govt

October 08, 2017 20:16

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray dares BJP to "resign" from Maharashtra government and face midterm polls.

Earlier on Saturday, the Shiv Sena president had slammed the central government over inflation and rising prices of essential products, saying "there is restlessness among citizens". Thackeray, while attacking the ally, the BJP-led government at the Centre, told a press conference, "Don't let that turn into an agitation. How much more you are going to loot the public?"

Thackeray criticised Modi's statement in Gujarat that the central government had lowered Goods and Services Tax rates was a Diwali gift for the public.

I am not an economist to comment on the announcements made yesterday but much more needs to be done to remove the suffering of the people, Thackeray said, and asked if the central government would willing return the surfeit taxes that had been collected so far.

The Shiv Sena relationship with its ally BJP has been showing signs of growing increasingly strained. The party has been highly critical of the BJP, with whom it shares power in the state government, and its policies, and the two parties have clashed on several occasions since they forged an alliance to take power in the state three years ago.

The Shiv Sena has repeatedly threatened to pull out of the government, but no such decision has been taken so far.

The BJP has 122 seats and the Sena has 63 in the 288-member Maharashtra assembly.

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