Shiv Sena rejects Prithviraj Chavan’s claim of coalition bid after 2014 assembly polls

The Shiv Sena on Wednesday dismissed the claim made by Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan that the Uddhav Thackeray-led party had proposed to form government with Congress and Nationalist Congress Party in 2014. The party also attacked the BJP, saying the 2014 assembly polls had revealed the “true face” of its former ally which had snapped 25-year-old ties with Sena before the election then.

On Sunday, Chavan had said that after the 2014 Maharashtra polls, Shiv Sena and NCP had approached him to form a coalition government to stop the Bharatiya Janata Party. But the Congress had rejected the demand immediately.

An editorial in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamana on Wednesday, however, said that there is no “logic” in Chavan’s claims. “The Congress faced a drubbing in the 2014 election under the leadership of Prithviraj Chavan. The Congress then did not have a ‘voice’. The question of going to Chavan with the proposal to form a government does not arise,” the editorial said.