Shiv Sena decides to not contest West Bengal polls in solidarity with TMC

Days after Shiv Sena introduced its choice to contest the West Bengal Assembly elections, that social gathering appears to have modified its thoughts. Party’s senior chief Sanjay Raut has taken to Twitter immediately to announce that his social gathering has now determined towards combating the upcoming West Bengal Assembly polls. He mentioned that his social gathering is of the opinion that it has develop into a ‘Didi Vs All’ struggle within the state of West Bengal. “All ‘M’s – money, muscle and media – are being used against ‘M’amata Didi”. For this cause, Shiv Sena has determined to not contest the elections and stand in ‘solidarity’ with Mamata Banerjee, mentioned the Shiv Sena chief.
Referring to Mamata Banerjee as West Bengal’s “real tigress”, Raut mentioned that his social gathering “wishes Mamata Didi a ‘roaring’ success”.
Screengrab of the Tweet by Shiv Sena senior chief Sanjay Raut
Interestingly, Shiv Sena had solely in January expressed its curiosity to contest the West Bengal Assembly elections after consultations together with his social gathering supremo Uddhav Thackeray. It was Sanjay Raut who had taken to Twitter then too, to make this announcement. Raut referred to the identical as ‘much awaited update’ and mentioned that the social gathering had determined to contest the upcoming elections. “We are reaching Kolkata soon. Jai Hind, Jai Bangla,” he had tweeted.
It remains to be unclear as to what has compelled the social gathering to abruptly take this contrasting choice, that to in lower than a span of a month.
Shiv Sena had earlier contested Assembly elections in 2016 and normal elections in 2019. Recently, Shiv Sena contested Bihar Assembly elections the place it did not win a single seat.