Nagpur: Former energy minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Tuesday claimed that the over 90% Shiv Sena MLAs are unhappy over the functioning of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government and they wanted to be with the BJP.
Speaking to TOI, the senior BJP functionary said people shouldn’t be surprised if the former allies came together once again.
His statement came in the backdrop of MLA Pratap Sarnaik’s letter to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray where he called on the Sena’s leadership to patch up with BJP.
According to him, the Congress-NCP were weakening Sena across the state.
Endorsing him, Bawankule said there was resentment among Sena MPs and legislators over the way MVA constituents were working.
“Only Congress and NCP legislators’ works are being preferred in Mantralaya while Sena leaders’ proposals were kept pending.
They were also upset over severing of power connections of citizens from their constituencies due to defaulting electricity bills.
It’s high time CM needs to introspect the working of MVA, where legislators from his own party are ignored.” Reiterating that the Maharashtra citizens had given clear mandate to former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, the former Kamptee MLA said a majority of Sena leaders have faith in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Fadnavis.
“Before 2019 assembly polls, Thackeray had declared on stage that Fadnavis would be their alliance CM’s face, but then they backstabbed the BJP.
Now its leaders are realizing that Congress and NCP leaders are dominating the Mantralaya and they were neglected.
All of them now badly want to forge the alliance with BJP to form the government,” Bawankule said.
No surprises if Sena & BJP come together again: Bawankule
