As the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government faces an existential crisis following Shiv Sena Minister Eknath Shinde’s intra-party rebellion, BJP State president Chandrakant Patil reiterated that his party had nothing to do with the unfolding events in Maharashtra.
“We are not trying to bring the government down, nor will we try to do so,” said Mr. Patil in Kolhapur on Friday. “I had been saying that the MVA government will collapse due to its internal contradictions and this is happening for real now.”
On Mr. Shinde’s statement in Guwahati that the entire operation of splitting the Shiv Sena was supported by a “national party”, Mr. Patil said: “There are many national parties in the country. Only Mr. Shinde knows which one he is referring to.”
