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Maha Saga: Shiv Sena not to announce candidate list in public, describes BJP 'enemy of State'
Mumbai: A day after the split with the Bharatiya Janata Party, a sulking Shiv Sena has said that it won't declare its Maharashtra candidate list publicly. The party has asked candidates to directly fill forms for nomination. The Sena has also slammed the BJP in its mouthpiece 'Saamana'. The party has said that it tried its best to save the alliance with the BJP.
"We tried our level best to save the alliance for the cause of Maharashtra. Those who have played with this emotion should be called Maharashtra's enemies. This is an insult to the martyrs of the unified Maharashtra movement," the Saamana editorial on Friday said.
"This (breaking of alliance) is an insult to the 105 Marathi martyrs of the Samyukta Maharashtra movement," the editorial said. "It is unfortunate that the Sena-BJP alliance which for the last 25 years was bound by the Hindutva ideology has ended," it added. "It will now be seen what happens next.
Whatever goddess Tulja Bhavani proposes will happen. The only expectation is that in all this politics, the mathematics of Maharashtra's future should not get disturbed," it said. "Those who till yesterday were praying in this tent are now offering namaz in the other tent," it further said.
The Congress and its leaders should not worry about the future of a united Mumbai and Maharashtra because Shiv Sena and the saffron flag will protect Maharashtra, it said. "Soon the realisation will dawn that those who flew away (BJP) were crows of 'pitrapaksh' and those who remain are Mavle (a term used for Chhhatrapati Shivaji's soldiers)," the editorial further said.
The BJP called off its alliance with the Shiv Sena on Thursday. The first indication of the rupture came on Thursday morning when BJP president Amit Shah cancelled his Mumbai visit. While the brinkmanship between state leaders of the two parties continued through the day, Sena minister in the NDA government Ananth Geethe shared the dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
But within an hour of the PM boarding the flight for US, the BJP made its move with the party's state unit unanimously announcing its decision to break the 25-year-old alliance with the Sena, an alliance that withstood the test of time of many years.