'Always upset': BJP takes jibe at Uddhav Sena; Sanjay Raut says MVA alliance intact

NEW DELHI: BJP former MP Navneet Rana took a dig at Shiv Sena (UBT) on Thursday, saying the party leaders remain upset irrespective of the parties they are in alliance with as Sanjay Raut mentioned that party leaders felt "they should have gone solo in elections".

Raut, however, clarified that his party would not be leaving MVA and that any such claims were mere conjectures.

The Shiv Sena (UBT) leader was responding to party leader Ambadas Danve's similar remark with regard to the poll outcome in which the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) faced a humiliating drubbing.

Reacting to Sanjay Raut's statement BJP's Navneet Rana said: "Uddhav Thackeray's party leaders say, if they had fought alone, they would have got more seats. I think his party is always upset in alliance. When it gets more seats by being with BJP, it is upset and when it gets less seats then also they can't digest the fact."

She also expressed her hopes that Devendra Fadnavis would be the next chief minister of Maharashtra.

"Everyone saw the dominating style of leadership of Devendra Fadnavis in the year 2014, I hope he will be our Chief Minister," Rana said.

Addressing a press conference in the national capital, Sanjay Raut said: "Not leaving MVA. We are discussing. Karyakartas felt we should have fought independently. These are just rumours. We fought in an MVA alliance in Lok Sabha and it was a big thing to win such a huge number."

He also said that alliance leaders were "capable" of making decisions regarding the BMC elections.

"Why are you guys worried? Just now the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections' results have come...we will see, we know what to do. MVA leaders are capable of making decisions regarding the BMC polls," he said when asked about the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls.

The MVA, which comprises Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), Sharad Pawar's NCP (SP) and Congress, suffered an unprecedented defeat as it won only 46 out of the 288 assembly seats.