Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on March 10 said that BJP should learn to digest victory. He congratulated Bhartiya Janta Party and Aam Aadmi Party for their victories. He termed AAP’s performance in Punjab as a historic one.
He said, “We should congratulate those who won in these states. Congress has lost miserably.It was expected that Akhilesh Yadav would perform well but that didn’t happen.”
He says that people want will chose if they have option. He said, “Maybe if Congress had been in alliance with SP, the numbers would have been better. Wherever there was an option, people chose it. Like in Punjab, people voted for AAP. Congress party election management was not good enough.”
A pre-poll alliance was announced by Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party for Goa Assembly Elections. Speaking of losing the UP and Goa Elections, he said that they would keep fighting.
“We contested in UP and Goa. This is just a beginning. We will continue to fight. Priyanka got a good response but didn’t get votes, but her fight will continue.”
“We would also continue to fight outside Maharashtra. BJP should learn to digest victory. It’s sometimes easier to accept defeat,” said the Shiv Sena leader.
In 1989, Shiv Sena and BJP had formed an alliance for the Lok Sabha as well as the Maharashtra assembly elections. Their alliance ended in the year 2019.
After breaking the alliance with BJP, Shiv Sena formed alliance NCP, and Congress, which led to the formation of Maha Vikas Aghadi government, with Uddhav Thackeray as the Chief Minister.
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