Shiv Sena to not contest Bengal polls, however will assist Mamata

Image Source : PTI Shiv Sena will not contest West Bengal elections.
The Shiv Sena has determined to opt-out of the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, however the celebration has determined to ‘wholeheartedly’ assist All India Trinamool Congress chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a high official stated on Thursday.

Sena MP and Chief Spokesperson Sanjay Raut stated that for the reason that West Bengal polls are turning out to be “Didi vs All”, the Shiv Sena has determined to not contest the elections, however will stand in solidarity together with her.

“Looking at the present scenario, it appears like a ‘Didi vs All’ fight. All M’s – Money, Muscle and Media – are being used against Mamata Didi. We wish her a ‘roaring success’, because we believe she is the real ‘Bengal Tigress’!” stated Raut.

He stated that the choice was taken after discussions with Shiv Sena President and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

However, MVA sources stated the transfer may have been prompted to make sure that there is no such thing as a division of votes within the West Bengal polls that would injury Trinamool’s prospects vis-a-vis the BJP because the Sena was tentatively planning to contest round 60 seats.

As a part of its technique to accumulate an all-India presence, in January, the Sena had introduced plans to sound the ballot bugle in West Bengal the place it had contested the 2016 Assembly and 2019 Lok Sabha polls, however notched nil when it comes to seats.

Earlier, the Sena — ruling Maharashtra in alliance with Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress — has contested numerous elections in numerous states together with Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir and Goa apart from West Bengal.

The saffron celebration has justified its ventures in different states on grounds that the Bharatiya Janata Party on the Centre has been making an attempt to destabilize or dethrone Constitutionally-elected governments in all Opposition-ruled states, together with Maharashtra and West Bengal.

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Incidentally, ruling ally NCP President Sharad Pawar has already stated he would go to Kolkata to increase assist to Mamata Banerjee — as a part of plans to construct up a ‘grand alliance’ of nationwide and state opposition events — earlier than the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Similarly, political sources additionally don’t rule out the potential for a repeat of Maharashtra’s MVA experiment — Sena-NCP-Congress with differing ideologies becoming a member of palms — in West Bengal if the japanese state brews up a fractured mandate within the elections, the outcomes of that are anticipated in early-May.

“The unthinkable happened in Maharashtra and it is working smoothly. Anything is possible… even in WB… The MVA is cited as a national example to make states strong,” a senior state chief stated guardedly, on the percentages with three arch-rivals in West Bengal — Congress, Left Front and Trinamool Congress — hugging one another post-polls to maintain the BJP at bay.

On its half, the BJP is in a hyper-aggressive temper to seize West Bengal and is leaving no stone unturned to beat what was a Communist fortress for almost three many years earlier than Mamata planted the Trinamool flag there 10 years in the past.

The relations between the Thackeray household and Mamata Banerjee, a former Union Minister, return a number of many years.

In 2017, Uddhav, 60 and Mamata, 66, had a cordial assembly in Mumbai when the latter had come to ask Indian company honchos for the West Bengal Global Investment Summit-2018 held in Kolkata.

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