Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray
A day ahead of the much-awaited Cabinet expansion of the Narendra Modi government, the Shiv Sena on Saturday expressed surprise that it has not received any information from the Centre and that it was not hungry from power.
" We have not received any information from the Centre...whatever we have heard is through news reports," Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray told reporters in Mumbai on Saturday.
"Neither we have been informed (by BJP) nor we have got in touch with them," he said. "We are not hungry for power..for the last 50 years, the party's ideology is 80 per cent social work and 20 per cent politics," he said in a sharp reaction.
The Shiv Sena is the oldest ally of the BJP and currently, has one Cabinet minister in the Modi government - Heavy Industries and Public Sector Enterprises Minister Anant Geete.
The Shiv Sena is looking for an additional berth - and the name doing rounds are of Rajya Sabha member Anil Desai or Lok Sabha MP Anand Adsul.
Desai is a trusted aide of the Thackeray family.