The BJP made “aghori” (barbaric) attempts to retain power in Maharashtra but the State’s people foiled it, marking the beginning of a change in the country’s politics, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said on Wednesday.
Addressing reporters here, Raut said it will not be surprising if the Shiv Sena forms Government at the Centre after having installed its Chief Minister (Uddhav Thackeray) in Maharashtra. Raut, who addressed the media regularly over the past one month as he took the BJP head-on, aggressively putting forth his party’s side, also said that he would not be holding regular press briefings from Thursday and revert to his work pertaining to the Sena’s mouthpiece ‘Saamana’.
The Rajya Sabha member is also the executive editor of Marathi daily ‘Saamana’.The BJP last Saturday formed Government in Maharashtra with the support of NCP’s Ajit Pawar, after refusing to do so initially for want of numbers.The Government led by Devendra Fadnavis collapsed on Tuesday after Pawar resigned as his Deputy, citing “personal reasons”.