New Delhi: As a part of the BJP’s the 2019 parliamentary election initiative called ‘sampark for samarthan’, party president Amit Shah will meet Shiv Sena chief Udhav Thackeray in Mumbai on Wednesday.
In the course of meet, the BJP president will apprise the Shiv Sena chief, who is not enjoying comfortable relations with the leadership of the saffron party, of the achievements of the Narendra Modi government in the last four years.
The meeting will take place when the relations between the two allies have soured and in the just concluded parliamentary by-elections in Palaghar, they trade charges against each other. The BJP had won the polls even as the Shiv Sena fielded ex-BJP MP’s son for the by-election.
On Monday, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that while the BJP would make all efforts to take along all its NDA partners in the 2019 elections, the party should stay prepared if the Shiv Sena decides to go it alone.
“The Lok Sabha bypolls in Palghar have broken the myth that the BJP cannot win elections alone… Striking electoral success is not difficult, provided we work harder,” he said at the party’s day-long meeting held at Vasant Smruti at Dadar in Mumbai.
The same day Sena MP Sanjay Raut attacked PM Modi and the BJP. “The Shiv Sena is the biggest political enemy of the BJP. The Sena’s radical Hinduism would prove problematic for the BJP,” he said.
Following the defeat in the Palghar bypoll, Thackeray had reiterated that the party would not forge an alliance with the BJP in the future. “Though the Sena has lost the Palghar bypoll, I refuse to accept defeat,” he told media after the results were declared. “The party would contest all future elections solo.”
The BJP has launched an intensive campaign to inform people about the achievements of the government, with top leaders personally meeting influencing personalities. Shah, on Monday, met Ramdev and former Chief Justice of India R C Lahoti at their residence and apprised them of the government’s work over the last four years.
