Will you win vote with support of rats like NCP? Sena asks BJP in latest Saamana attack

Hours ahead of the crucial confidence vote in the Maharashtra Assembly, the Shiv Sena, which has said that it will vote against the BJP, made its intentions clear with a stinging editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana, which asked whether Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis would rely on the support of “rats” like the NCP to stay in power. “Are you going to win the confidence vote with the aid of these rats? You will have to answer to the people. But in reality you cannot tell anyone where you will end up taking Maharashtra with the aid of these rats,” the Sena mouthpiece said in an editorial. The editorial also said the Chief Minister needed to explain to the people of Maharashtra, how he would run the government with the support of a party that they had rejected. In the editorial titled “Will the government float on the backs of rats?”, the Shiv Sena mouthpiece questioned the logic behind the BJP resorting to taking the support of the NCP to stay in power in the state. [caption id=“attachment_1798879” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] The Shiv Sena has refused to back the BJP government in Maharashtra. PTI image[/caption] “The BJP will have to put before the people the manipulations it carries out to stay in power. The BJP is fine with getting the Shiv Sena’s support to stay in power but they are not prepared to take forward negotiations about including the party in the government,” the editorial said. The party questioned how the BJP could accept the support of the NCP whose philosophy it claimed was to create a “mountain of corruption” and which had already looted Maharashtra. Saying that the people of Maharashtra expected clean governance from Fadnavis, the editorial said that the Congress-NCP alliance had reduced the state’s standing in the 15 years that it had been in power. “Chief Minister Fadnavis and its allies will ensure the government survives and functions, of that we have no doubt. But the real question is, whose tune will you dance to, just to ensure the governments survival ?” asked the editorial. The editorial pointed out that the NCP had been relegated to fourth place among the parties in the state and said the BJP should analyse why the people of Maharashtra had rejected the party in the elections. By that logic the new government could even take the support of the All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) to stay in power, the editorial added.