Kolhapur: The alliance Shiv Sena has formed with Bharatiya Janata Party is for "Dev, Desh and Dharma”, said Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday, while adding that he wanted a Ram temple in Ayodhya to become the symbol of "Ramrajya".Thackeray made the comments while speaking at a rally here - which was also the first joint address by the BJP and Sena in the state.Both chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Thackeray also used the platform to target Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar.“Sena entered into an alliance with the BJP to make Narendra Modi the prime minister again. The alliance is for Dev, Desh and Dharma. I took up the issue of the Ram Mandir as I want the temple to become the symbol of Ramrajya," Thackeray said.On Pawar, the Sena chief said the NCP leader had "spent his entire life destroying Maharashtra". "The NCP-Congress alliance is a punctured tyre. We have a candidate for the Prime Minister’s post. Pawar and Mayawati had both dreamt of becoming the prime minister but have now withdrawn from the fight.”The NCP chief had recently said the Centre had accepted his suggestion to give a free hand to all three wings of the India armed forces while striking against terror. Thackeray used the statement to take a jibe at Pawar. "I now urge the BJP not to induct Pawar into the party," he said.Fadnavis, meanwhile, said Pawar had turned into the extra player of a cricket team after the veteran politician announced his withdrawal from the Lok Sabha election contest. “The captain of the team had arrived as the opening batsman. But he is now the 12th man," the chief minister said.Fadnavis also declared that the Modi government had helped sugarcane growers in the region. "We accept that we do not know much about agriculture, but the government under Modi has taken several decisions for sugarcane farmers. There is no longer a need to launch protests just to secure fair prices for farm produce. The Modi government provided a financial package when the sugarcane sector was in crisis. Modi set the minimum selling price at Rs 31 per kilogram, which has happened for the first time,” he said.The chief minister also slammed Congress' Sam Pitroda's statement on the Balakot airstrikes. “There are only two parties that are demanding proof of the airstrike - one is Pakistan and the other is Congress. The Congress has sympathy towards Pakistan. Our jawans destroyed the bases of terrorists. The armed forces have always been strong. But the Congress' leadership lacked guts. Modi has guts,” he said.

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