Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil denied reports that the BJP has received an offer from the dissenting Sena group to form a government in alliance with it. (PTI Photo)A day after Eknath Shinde, who is heading the dissenting Shiv Sena group, claimed that a national party was supporting them, state BJP chief Chandrakant Patil on Friday denied that his party was supporting the faction currently putting up in Assam capital. He also denied that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had received any offer from the dissenting Sena group to form a government in alliance with it.
“The BJP has no hand in whatever is happening in the Shiv Sena. There are many national parties in the country. You will have to ask Shinde which party is supporting them,” Patil told reporters in Kolhapur.
Regarding leader of opposition Devendra Fadnavis rushing to Delhi, Patil said, “It is his routine visit. There are many issues that need to be taken up with the party leadership and therefore, he keeps visiting Delhi.”
Patil said the BJP has not received any offer from the rebel Shiv Sena group to join hands to form the government in the state. “We have not received any offer from the rebel group. If we get such an offer, then our 13-member core group will discuss it thoroughly and send the proposal to the Central Parliamentary Board, which takes the final decision…Our style of working is studying in advance and in detail, which we will do in this case as well,” he said.
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Patil said that he had been maintaining since long that the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government will fall due to its internal contradictions. “We are not trying to bring the government down or will try to do so. I had been saying that the MVA government will fall due to its internal contradictions, which is coming true now,” he said.
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