New Delhi: As allies Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena refuse to budge over seat sharing for Maharashtra Assembly elections attempts are on to save the alliance. BJP President Amit Shah on Monday called up Shiv Sena chhief Uddhav Thackeray and urged him not to break the 25-year-old alliance.
This comes a day after the Shiv Sena had made a final seat sharing offer to BJP under which the latter gets to contest 119 seats as opposed to its demand for 130 seats. The saffron brigade had rejected the offer and rumours were abuzz that the parties which share the 'Hindutva agenda' might just call it quits.
Sources in the BJP told CNN-IBN that the party was mulling to fight the crucial elections alone if Sena refused to give its demanded number of seats.
To this, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said, "They (BJP) should remember they are not givers but takers on this land. I will be saddened if the alliance breaks."
The BJP has demanded around 130 seats and wanted Sena to contest on 140 seats. But Sena has made it clear that it would contest on at least 150 seats and has also communicated that the BJP could not widen its base at Sena's cost. The BJP insisted that they want Sena to discuss on 59 seats that it has never won.
As the BJP gets into a huddle to solve it's biggest crisis in Maharashtra, Thackeray has sent across two messages - Sena was not the one that was breaking the alliance and they were fully prepared to contest alone, if need be.
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