Mumbai, August 26: Shiv Sena today said the ongoing crisis in BJP will have no bearing on the saffron alliance’s prospects in the upcoming Assembly elections in Maharashtra.
Talking to reporters here, party Executive President Uddhav Thackeray said the Sena-BJP alliance is making a serious bid to re-capture power in the state and will not face any problem due to the crisis which unfolded after the expulsion of Jaswant Singh over his views on M A Jinnah and dissenting voices from some other leaders.
He was talking to reporters after laying the foundation stone of multi-crore modernisation project of the civic-run zoo, Veermataa Jijabai Bhosale Udyan, in Byculla.
Thackeray was accompanied by senior BJP leader and Lok Sabha member Gopinath Munde.
The Sena-BJP alliance, formed over two decades ago, rules the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Asia’s largest civic body.
Thackeray and Munde also inaugurated a garden at the Gateway of India. The Rs 4.95-crore garden is situated opposite Taj Mahal hotel, one of the sites of the last November’s terror attacks.
Munde, a former Maharashtra Home Minister, accused the Congress-led Governments at the Centre and the state of failure to upgrade Mumbai’s security in the aftermath of the 26/11 attacks. .
—Agencies