'Not even if Lord Indra's throne is offered' Shiv Sena on reviving alliance with BJP; Gadkari says alliance won't last beyond 8 months
Mumbai/Ranchi/IBNS: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut declared on Friday that there was no possibility of reviving its alliance with BJP "even if Lord Indra's throne is offered" even as Union minister Nitin Gadkari termed the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance "opportunistic" and said it won't last more than eight months.
Reacting on reports that BJP had to share the Chief Minister's post, Sanjay Raut told the media that the time to strike a power-sharing agreement with BJP had ended.
BJP and Shiv Sena had an acrimonious split after the former rejected Shiv Sena's offer to take turns on the Chief Minister's post last month while the latter refused to budge from its demand.
Raut has been saying that people of Maharashtra want a Shiv Sena Chief Minister and claimed today that both Sharad Pawar's NCP and Congress have agreed to this.
Meanwhile, Gadkari, who is currently campaigning in Jharkhand for the coming Assembly elections, said these "ideologically different" parties formed an alliance to keep BJP out of power which was "unfortunate.
"Opportunism is the base of their alliance. The three parties have become united with the only motto to keep the BJP out of power. I have doubts whether this government will be formed... Even if it is formed, it will not last beyond six to eight months," Mr Gadkari was quoted as saying by NDTV.
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