Despite sabre-rattling, PM Modi and Uddhav may share dais

  • | Thursday | 10th January, 2019

If we contest separately, it will be reverse the situation. Congress-NCP will win around 34 to 36 seats, while BJP will secure nine to 10 seats and Shiv Sena five to seven seats,” the BJP politician said.The BJP politician said that in the recent past senior politicians of the BJP led by Amit Shah and the Shiv Sena had launched a high-decibel campaign against each other, and chances of a patch-up appeared bleak. MUMBAI: Notwithstanding the open exchange of threats between allies BJP and Shiv Sena about finishing the other off in the general election, prime minister Narendra Modi may share the dais with Uddhav Thackeray while laying the foundation stone of the Rs 55,332 crore Mumbai-Nagpur super expressway.If Modi shares the platform with Thackeray, it may be a sign of the allies making a first move towards a patch-up for the 2019 Lok Sabha election.Shiv Sena president Thackeray has often taken potshots at the BJP despite his party being in government at the Centre as well as in the state. On December 23, 2016, the BJP did invite Thackeray for the foundation stone ceremony of the Rs 3,600 crore Shivaji memorial, but he was give nthe cold shoulder at the event as the BJP took centre stage.A senior BJP politician said relations with the Shiv Sena remained poor and a patch-up looked bleak but still many felt the allies falling apart would only benefit the Congress-NCP.“BJP-Shiv Sena had won 40 seats in the last Lok Sabha polls, while Congress-NCP had secured just seven seats. He did it again in Beed on Wednesday, speaking about the “failure” of the loan waiver scheme.A senior BJP politician confirmed that Modi may lay the foundation stone of the 700 km expressway, a dream project of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis , and did not rule out the possibility of Thackeray attending the event as a special guest.The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation , entrusted with the task of laying the road, is headed by Shiv Sena minister Eknath Shinde, a trusted Thackeray aide.A senior bureaucrat did not rule out the possibility of the Shiv Sena president accepting the invitation.“We know relations between BJP and Shiv Sena have gone sour, but for the cause of development, Shiv Sena will agree to share the platform with the PM,” the bureaucrat said.On October 11, 2015, when Modi laid the foundation stone for the Rs 1,000 crore Ambedkar memorial, it was expected that the CM would invite Thackeray for the event, but the BJP ignored him.

MUMBAI: Notwithstanding the open exchange of threats between allies BJP and Shiv Sena about finishing the other off in the general election, prime minister Narendra Modi may share the dais with Uddhav Thackeray while laying the foundation stone of the Rs 55,332 crore Mumbai-Nagpur super expressway.If Modi shares the platform with Thackeray, it may be a sign of the allies making a first move towards a patch-up for the 2019 Lok Sabha election.Shiv Sena president Thackeray has often taken potshots at the BJP despite his party being in government at the Centre as well as in the state. He did it again in Beed on Wednesday, speaking about the “failure” of the loan waiver scheme.A senior BJP politician confirmed that Modi may lay the foundation stone of the 700 km expressway, a dream project of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis , and did not rule out the possibility of Thackeray attending the event as a special guest.The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation , entrusted with the task of laying the road, is headed by Shiv Sena minister Eknath Shinde, a trusted Thackeray aide.A senior bureaucrat did not rule out the possibility of the Shiv Sena president accepting the invitation.“We know relations between BJP and Shiv Sena have gone sour, but for the cause of development, Shiv Sena will agree to share the platform with the PM,” the bureaucrat said.On October 11, 2015, when Modi laid the foundation stone for the Rs 1,000 crore Ambedkar memorial, it was expected that the CM would invite Thackeray for the event, but the BJP ignored him. On December 23, 2016, the BJP did invite Thackeray for the foundation stone ceremony of the Rs 3,600 crore Shivaji memorial, but he was give nthe cold shoulder at the event as the BJP took centre stage.A senior BJP politician said relations with the Shiv Sena remained poor and a patch-up looked bleak but still many felt the allies falling apart would only benefit the Congress-NCP.“BJP-Shiv Sena had won 40 seats in the last Lok Sabha polls, while Congress-NCP had secured just seven seats. If we contest separately, it will be reverse the situation. Congress-NCP will win around 34 to 36 seats, while BJP will secure nine to 10 seats and Shiv Sena five to seven seats,” the BJP politician said.The BJP politician said that in the recent past senior politicians of the BJP led by Amit Shah and the Shiv Sena had launched a high-decibel campaign against each other, and chances of a patch-up appeared bleak.

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