Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said BJP has a strategic alliance with the Ajit Pawar-led NCP in the state and an emotional tie-up with Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena.
Fadnavis made the remark while speaking at the ABP Network's Ideas of India Summit 3.0 on ‘Collaborative Federalism: View of the States’.
He also said that the BJP is not facing anti-incumbency in the upcoming polls and the party doesn't need to target the opposition.
“We are in strategic alliance with NCP and have an emotional alliance with Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena,” Fadnavis said.
He expressed confidence that the Narendra Modi-led government at the centre will get a third term.
“The BJP does not face anti-incumbency. We don’t need to target the opposition,” he added.
Speaking about the Maharashtra government, Fadnavis said, “Sharad Pawar nominated Ajit Pawar for leading alliance-related talks. Later, Ajit Pawar couldn't back out from the commitments he had made to BJP.”
Ajit Pawar and many top NCP leaders walked away from the Sharad Pawar-founded party last year and joined hands with the ruling coalition of the Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the BJP.
A year before that, Shinde had split the undivided Sena, then led by Uddhav Thackeray, to form the government with the BJP.
“We had treated them as brothers for 25 years. It was Uddhav Thackeray ji who closed all doors,” he said, referring to the severing of ties between the undivided Sena and BJP after the last state polls.
Speaking on the assembly elections, to be held in the state this year, Fadnavis said, “The alliance with NCP and Shiv Sena will continue in the upcoming elections. Eknath Shinde is our leader and we will fight the assembly elections under his leadership.” No matter how many parties join hands with the BJP, it is the saffron party’s ideology that matters. “The alliance parties associate themselves with our ideology,” he added.
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