Mumbai:
Uddhav Thackeray’s faction of Shiv Sena is going ahead full steam with Raj Thackeray’s MNS for the civic elections in Mumbai. The formal announcement will be made at noon tomorrow, said senior Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut. Raut also made it clear that Congress, the naysayer to this alliance, will no longer be their ally for the BMC election — a situation that the Congress confirmed, with a hint at their contingency plan.
“There will be no further discussion with the Congress,” Sanjay Raut told reporters less than 24 hours after his telephonic conversation with Rahul Gandhi.
“We will see to it that there should not be any enmity with the Congress during the election. Post-election, if required, we will take the support of Congress. But I am sure that both brothers will 100 per cent cross 100 seats in BMC,” he added.
The Congress made it clear that it is sticking to its stand on Raj Thackeray and is even ready to discontinue its alliance with the Uddhav Thackeray’s faction of Shiv Sena.
“It is wrong to say that Raj Thackeray is part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi… In the BMC
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