BJP-Sena Will Contest Jointly; I Will Return As A Chief Minister: Devendra Fadnavis

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister on Saturday said that the BJP and shiv Sena will contest the next month’s Assembly pole together.

The CM also excluded confidence that he will retain the post after elections.

He dismissed media reports that the BJP will contest 162 out of total 288 seats and the sena 126.

Maharashtra will go for a single-phase election on October 21. Counting of votes will be done on October 24.

Fadnavis said the BJP did not dictate terms to the sena and the decisions between them are taken ‘amicably’.on Sena’s criticism of his government through party mouthpiece  “Saamana,” Fadnavis quipped, “I don’t read saamana”. He said all the decisions taken by his cabinet were ‘unanimous’ with the support of shiv sena minister.

“Shiv Sena had a second thought about any of the decisions in the last five years. So we are not concerned about what happened outside” he said in an oblique reference to ‘Saamana’.

Responding to a query on whether he will get another term as the chief minister, the CM reported:  “Do you have any doubt?”.

The BJP and Sena had contested the 2014 Assembly pole independently. The BJP had emerged as the single largest party winning 122 seats while the sena pocketed 63 seats.

Later both parties come together to form the government.

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