Mumbai: The anxiety among Shiv Sena MLAs over the possibility of a split in the party was evident on Wednesday as party MLA Abdul Sattar threatened to resort to violence if attempts were made to break his party. Sena’s legislative party leader, Eknath Shinde, also dismissed reports of rebellion in the party.
“We will break the heads and legs of those who will try to break our party so that they will not be able to walk or show their face again,” said Sattar, the MLA from Sillod.
There were reports that some Sena MLAs were upset with the party’s decision to join hands with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and some of them even met party chief Uddhav Thackeray to express their displeasure.
However, Sattar said that the party’s alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party is over.
He said, “The relationship between BJP and Shiv Sena has ended. Our minister has resigned from the Union Cabinet and now Shiv Sena MPs are setting on the other side in Parliament. So I think the alliance is over for BJP-Shiv Sena.”
Sattar, who was previously been a two-term Congress MLA from Sillod before joining Shiv Sena ahead of Vidhan Sabha polls, also said that Mr Thackeray will be the next chief minister of Maharashtra.
