Mumbai: A day after ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to an end, there are reports that Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray called up his estranged cousin and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray to enquire about his ill health.
While the timing of the call is speculative as it comes amidst an upheavel in Maharashtra politics, Sena leaders have denied that the call was made to discuss alliances.
Earlier in the day, Sena dubbed BJP leaders as "enemies of Maharashtra" for breaking the 25-year-old alliance. "Our other (Mahayuti) alliance parties wanted the Sena-BJP combine to continue. More than that, it was what the 11 crore people of Maharashtra wanted. Those who trampled these sentiments are enemies of Maharashtra," Sena said. "The breaking of this alliance is an insult to the 105 Marathi martyrs of the Samyukta Maharashtra movement," an editorial in Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' said.
"It is unfortunate that the Sena-BJP alliance which for the last 25 years was bound by the Hindutva ideology has ended," the Sena said. "We made sincere efforts till the end to ensure that the alliance with BJP and other parties of Mahayuti remained intact," the editorial said.
"It will now be seen what happens next. Whatever goddess Tulja Bhavani proposes will happen. The only expectation is that in all this politics, the mathematics of Maharashtra's future should not get disturbed," it said. "Those who till yesterday were praying in this tent are now offering namaz in the other tent," it further said.
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