Mumbai: The Shiv Sena, BJPs biggest ally, both in ideological and political terms, has rebuffed BJP President Amit Shah’s rapprochement efforts and said ‘the Modi floods’ (a derogatory word in place of ‘Modi waves’) may have successfully swept away snakes and mongooses, but “the tiger cannot be tamed”.
The party from Maharashtra, has declared its future intentions to go alone in the next polls and had made very strong comments against the BJP by saying that the party was “still living in the golden era of 2014” while “the picture of 2019 will be completely different.”
The Shiv Sena party mouthpiece ‘Saamna’, had published an editorial, in which it claimed that the BJP had forgotten “humility” after it came to power in 2014 but has got some brain after the recent Lok Sabha bypoll results of Gorakhpur and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh, where the party has suffered serious setback last month.
In the recently held polls in Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh, the BJP lost both the seats which were won by the CM and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya respectively in the last 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
“The BJP does not need friends. They are strong and self-reliant,” the Sena editorial asserted.
“Their (BJP’s) wingless plane flew in the sky and kept on flying. Now they want to land but there is no place to land,” it said.
“Let the BJP keep dreaming about the golden era. We wish them luck,” it added.
In 2014 Lok Sabha elections, both the parties, BJP and Shiv Sena had fought together, but the BJP subsequently decided to go out alone in the Maharashtra assembly polls in October same year.
The BJP led NDA alliance government gained power in the state in October 2014, while the Shiv Sena joined the government in December that year.
Just a few months earlier, the Sena, in an unhappy mood, announced that it will contest all the future elections alone.
To make the alliance work smoothly, the BJP party chief Mr Shah said while he was addressing a press conference here on April 6 that the BJP hoped the Shive Sena party would continue to be a part of NDA.
The party said that Mr Shah’s comment about Shiv Sena to be a part of BJP was an indirect way of conveying.
“They (BJP) did not get this wisdom in 2014 and after getting power, they even forgot humility,” the Sena said.
In an apparent way, while referring to Mr Shah’s analogy of animals while attacking the opposition parties getting together against the BJP, the editorial said, “In the 2014 Modi floods, snakes, mongooses, dogs and cats were washed away. Similarly, on the BJP Foundation Day in 2018, the nationalist thoughts too were washed away.”
Without taking the name of Mr Shah, the Sena said, “The opposition parties were compared with animals such as snakes, mongoose, dogs and cats. Some of them were also with the UPA earlier.”
“You cannot tame the tiger,” it added.
The editorial went on further to mock the BJP over the “extravagant” manner in which it celebrated the Foundation Day on April 6.
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