Hours ahead of his meeting with Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, the party’s magazine, Saamana, has named Mr Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as wilful defaulters in ally management which makes it clear that it is not exactly a warm welcome for Amit Shah in Mumbai.
Mr Shah has travelled to the financial capital specifically to assuage Mr Thackeray who has been prolific and creative in his criticism of the BJP though they run Maharashtra together. The party mouthpiece Saamna criticised its ally’s outreach programme ‘Sampark for Samarthan’ and reiterated that it would contest the 2019 polls “independently”.
“Ties between the people and the BJP have snapped…for the BJP, relationships are business calculations,” an editorial in Saamana proclaimed today.
Making fun of the BJP, the Sena said the party has launched a global outreach programme, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a world tour and Shah on a domestic one. “The BJP has lost sampark [contact] with the people of the country, and it should introspect why it has happened,” the Marathi daily said, pointing out that the BJP won just one of the four Lok Sabha seats and one of the 10 Assembly seats where bypolls were held in May.
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