With the Shiv Sena and BJP continuing to target each other despite sharing power in the state and the Mumbai municipal corporation, the NCP has now demanded that he Prime Minister’s office to interven
With the Shiv Sena and BJP continuing to target each other despite sharing power in the state and the Mumbai municipal corporation, the NCP has now demanded that he Prime Minister’s office to intervene and put an end to the fight. The NCP alleged that since the two ruling parties are busy fighting each other, they have failed to provide solutions to people’s problems.
“Both the allies are forgetting that people have given them a mandate to rule, not to create a ruckus. The daily bickering between them, and no solution to their problems, people, have lost faith in the institution of government. If this continues, people will lose faith in democracy. We urge the PMO to take cognisance of the melee going on in the state and put an end to this,” said NCP legislator Kiran Pawaskar.
Even though Shiv Sena has joined the BJP government at the Centre and in the state, it continues to criticise the policies of both the governments through its mouthpiece Saamana. The Uddhav Thackeray-led party has criticised the BJP on several issues, including farmer suicides, terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and controversies such as the one in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. In response, BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari recently wrote an article in BJP’s in-house magazine Manogat, daring Shiv Sena to leave the government.
“Instead of using its mouthpiece to ask the Sena to fall out of the government, they should simply come out in the open and say they are ready for mid-term polls,” said Mr Pawaskar, who was earlier in Shiv Sena and joined the NCP only a couple of years ago.
The NCP legislator also urged the BJP to seek derecognition of the Sena, contending that it could not be allowed to contest the forthcoming Mumbai civic polls owing to the multi-crore scams in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
“Being in power at the Centre and the state, it is the BJP’s responsibility to seek Sena’s derecognition because they had come to power on a corruption-free governance plank. It will be a gross injustice to the people if Sena is allowed to contest BMC polls,” Mr Pawaskar said.
