Mumbai: The RSS has criticised the state BJP for snapping the 25-year-old partnership with it last week, the Shiv Sena said in its party mouthpiece yesterday.
In a front-page revelation in Saamana, the Shiv Sena has said that three days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) broke the alliance, a secret meeting was held in south Mumbai.
The BJP leaders sought the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) guidance on how to approach the electorate under the changed political scenario in Maharashtra where all the five major parties are now contesting independently.
“Did you consult us before breaking the alliance? Why is BJP running away form Hindutva? Or did you break it because of your selfish interests... This has created divisions among Hindus...,” the Sena quoted RSS leaders as saying at the closed-door meeting.
“You are only bothered about your chair... With what face are you going to approach the electorate and seek votes?” the RSS leaders hit out, the Saamana said quoting sources present at the meeting. Another RSS leader made it clear to the BJP leaders not to “indulge in such strange experiments — The Shiv Sena is not a Nitish Kumar party, they are our true friends”, they said.
Pulling up BJP leaders, the RSS seniors said they appeared least concerned about “serious issues like love jihad, land jihad, cow slaughter and (religious) conversions”.
It also castigated the BJP over the move to admit several deserters from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to the party fold and even allotted them tickets for the forthcoming elections.IANS
