Team Uddhav Leader Hints Alliance May End With Congress Over Savarkar
NDTV
The Shiv Sena had forged the alliance with the Congress and the NCP after the Maharashtra elections in 2019.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction may ditch its ideologically antithetical partner Congress, the party said on Friday, in a sharp escalation of a disagreement over their views on right-wing ideologue VD Savarkar.
"Uddhav [Thackeray] ji may make a statement. In the morning, Sanjay Raut made a statement saying we may not continue in the MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition). That's a serious reaction from the party. What more do you want?" Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant told NDTV.
Questioned about continuing the alliance, he also reiterated the group's attack on the BJP for teaming up with Jammu and Kashmir's Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) - a partnership that was equally paradoxical.
The Shiv Sena had forged the MVA alliance with the Congress and the NCP after the Maharashtra elections in 2019.
