The Shiv Sena will leave the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in Maharashtra within a year and come to power on its own, Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray said on Thursday, PTI reported.
The Shiv Sena has repeatedly attacked the Maharashtra government over the past year and often threatened to quit the alliance and contest the 2019 Assembly elections on its own.
“The Sena will quit power in one year and come back to power on its own strength,” Aaditya Thackeray said at a rally in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district, adding that Sena President Uddhav Thackeray will “decide when the party will quit power”.
In November, Aaditya Thackeray had criticised the BJP government’s decision to demonetise high-value currency notes in 2016 and asked why they were celebrating on the first anniversary of the note ban.
Earlier, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar said he felt “Uddhav was not interested in continuing in the government”, after meeting the Sena chief in November.
Other Shiv Sena leaders, too, have hit out against the BJP government in Maharashtra. In October, Sena MP Sanjay Raut called the BJP the Shiv Sena’s “principal enemy” and said his party was part of the Maharashtra government “just for the sake of it”.
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