Will the government complete its term? Maharashtra CM answers

The 29-year-old alliance between the BJP and Shiv Sena has come to an end. But what we need to know will the government be able to complete its term?

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said today that his government will complete its term in alliance with the Shiv Sena.

His comments came after the Shiv Sena said that it will have no truck with ally BJP in the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly and Lok Sabha polls.

However, the Uddhav Thackeray-led party was silent about its continuance in the governments at the Centre and in Maharashtra.

“We will complete our term with Shiv Sena. Let’s wait. They have been saying many things. As of now, we are in alliance with the government and this government will complete its term,” Mr. Fadnavis told reporters in Davos, where he has gone to attend the World Economic Forum.

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“I am sure we will get another term as well,” he said. The resolution to part ways with the BJP and go it alone in the elections next year was tabled by Sena MP Sanjay Raut at the party’s National Executive meeting.

Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar said, “The BJP was ready for the pre-poll alliance with Shiv Sena for the next elections. But Shiv Sena has started talking about going to polls alone. If they don’t want the alliance, BJP is all prepared to face the polls on its own strength. So, are the people. The loss will be for Sena. This is our evaluation based on ground reality.

Insiders in the BJP said, “In the 2014 assembly elections, Shiv Sena had taken the decision to part ways with BJP by making unreasonable demand in seat sharing. Now, we all have seen the results. The BJP with 122 seats out of 288 seats was way ahead. The Shiv Sena won only 63 seats.”

The BJP believes the Sena also got 18 seats elected in Lok Sabha out of total 48 seats because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wave during 2014 general assembly polls. The BJP won 23 Lok Sabha seats in 2014. The Sena-BJP was in alliance for 2014 Lok Sabha elections. But six months later in 2014 assembly elections for Maharashtra, they decided to contest the elections separately.