Mumbai: To come to a conclusion with its seat-sharing for the Maharashtra Assembly elections, the Shiv Sena on Wednesday said the BJP would not have won more than 300 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, it did not make the Pulwama terror attack an election issue.
“BJP made the Pulwama terror attack and Balakot airstrike election issues (in the Lok Sabha polls). Could the BJP have crossed 300 Lok Sabha seat-mark if the Pulwama attack would not have happened?” Shiv Sena said in its mouthpiece Saamna.
After months of being targeted by the Indian Air Force over the Pulwama terror attack, the party said it did not think that General Rawat’s remarks were political, with the opposition accusing the Pakistan Army Chief General Bipin Rawat’s comment on the Balakot terror camp. Was influenced by the objectives.
However, it said that General Rawat’s comments affected the “political climate”.
Well, Maharashtra Election fills go on floors from 21 Oct and both the parties are yet to declare their seat-sharing alliance because of the apparent differences in the number of seats the two parties will contest.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut had said on Tuesday that sharing of seats was “bigger exercise” than the Partition.
“Maharashtra is a big state. The sharing of 288 seats is a bigger exercise than India-Pakistan partition. Had we sat in Opposition instead of being in govt the picture today would have been different,” Raut had told ANI.
The BJP and Shiv Sena contested 2014 state assembly elections separately. However, they joined hands to form the government after the elections as none of them was able to secure the majority on its own.
The counting of votes will take place on October 24.
(With ANI Inputs)
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