AAP councilors protest against cancellation of mayoral polls
The party may move the court after taking legal opinion on the matter, said AAP leader Durgesh Pathak.
The Shiv Sena national executive on Tuesday adopted a unanimous resolution breaking electoral ties with the BJP.
The party will fight the 2019 Lok Sabha election and the next Maharashtra Assembly polls without a tie-up with the BJP, Sanjay Raut, Sena spokesman and executive editor of party mouthpiece Saamna, told reporters.
Party president Uddhav Thackeray announced that his party will from now on fight all state elections on the Hindutva plank.
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In 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena were together in the Lok Sabha polls but fought against each other in October 2014 Maharashtra poll.
But the resolution, for the time being, will stay on paper, analysts argue, saying that the angry junior partner is still reluctant to quit the government in Delhi as well as in Mumbai.
In another significant development, Aditya Thackeray the 27-year-old son of party chief Uddhav Thackeray was on Tuesday made a member of the national executive. Currently, he leads Yuva Sena, the youth wing of the party. The seething discontent within Shiv Sena found an aggressive voice in Uddhav Thackeray’s speech at the meeting.
He criticised the BJP’s claims on economic development for being hollow. “Like a ban on cow slaughter, such self-glorifying claims too must be banned.”
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