While denying that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had any hand in triggering Shiv Sena leader and Maharashtra Minister Eknath Shinde’s intra-party rebellion, Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Tuesday said the unrest within the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi government, and particularly the Shiv Sena, had reached a peak, while alleging that several Sena MLAs had wanted to ally with the BJP, and not the ideologically opposed Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress, since the MVA’s formation.
Speaking in Mumbai over the political turmoil sparked by Mr. Shinde, Mr. Patil said that the latter’s actions were the Shiv Sena’s internal matter and that the BJP was presently in a “wait and watch” mode.
“BJP has not pre-planned Eknath Shinde’s rebellion. This is the Sena’s internal matter. The unrest within the MVA government has reached a peak. The government was being dominated by the NCP in the last two-and-a-half years,” Mr. Patil, who has been predicting the MVA’s imminent fall since its formation in late 2019, said.
