Shiv Sena to revive Marathi poll plank
Saamna calls BJP ‘enemy of Maharashtra’; Saffron party seeks Prez rule
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-09-27 04:59 GMT
Mumbai: A day after the split in the saffron alliance, the Shiv Sena on Friday lashed out at the BJP, calling it “enemy of Maharashtra”, signalling a return to its original pro-Marathi agenda for next month’s Assembly polls.
“Our other alliance parties wanted the Sena-BJP association to continue. More than that, it was what the 11 crore people of Maharashtra wanted. Those who trampled these sentiments are enemies of Maharashtra,” Shiv Sena said in an editorial in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana.’
“This (breaking of alliance) is an insult to the 105 Marathi martyrs of the Samyukta Maharashtra movement,” the editorial went on to say. It also termed as “unfortunate” the demise of the long-standing alliance between the two ideologically compatible pro-Hindutva parties.
Meanwhile, a day after the NCP pulled out of the Congress-led coalition government in Maharashtra reducing it to a minority, the BJP demanded its immediate dismissal and imposition of President's Rule in the state.
Senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Eknath Khadse called on Governor C Vidyasagar Rao this afternoon and handed him a letter seeking immediate sacking of the Prithviraj Chavan government.