Mumbai: Facing rebellion in its ranks, senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said the party is ready to fight over the symbol and control of the organisation.
Interacting with the media here, Raut also claimed that the BJP was trying to divide Maharashtra into three pieces and it was part of the saffron party’s conspiracy to break into the Shiv Sena.
He also hit out at Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and accused him of trying to break up the Shiv Sena parliamentary party at a time when the state was struggling to deal with heavy floods in some parts.
“We are ready for any fight, be it election symbol or party organisation. Some MPs and MLAs may leave us. But MLAs and MPs alone do not make Shiv Sena,” Raut said, adding Shiv Sainiks will make it difficult for the rebels to win any election in the future.
He reminded the broken fact of the aid given to him politically, socially and financially over the years by party supremo Uddhav Thackeray.
Raut also took a dig at Shinde, saying he had to go to Delhi as he was the “chief minister of the BJP”.
“I never recall Shiv Sena chief ministers Manohar Joshi or Narayan Rane making rounds of the national capital for cabinet expansion and other issues,” he said.
Shiv Sena parliamentary party is staring at a split in its ranks with a breakaway faction set to approach Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla with a plea to recognise them as a separate group with Rahul Shewale as their leader.
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