MUMBAI: CM Uddhav Thackeray on Friday ruled out any future alliance with the BJP and wondered aloud “whether BJP will improve its conduct”, adding no one was bound to anyone. If a one-time alliance partner was doing wrong “then I have to do what’s in the interest of the country and state”, he said. BJP, he alleged, wants to grab power at all levels and added Balasaheb Thackeray had not formed Shiv Sena “for us to wash clothes and utensils”.
“Initially our alliance was based on ideology. Our (Thackerays’) objective was never to grab power. When the alliance (with BJP) happened, Balasaheb said you handle the country and we will look after the state. Now you won the country, you won the state and you also want the municipal corporation,” he said at a Q&A session organised by Loksatta, a Marathi newspaper.
