Shiv Sena wonders if PM Modi was kept in loop about 50:50 seat-sharing formula

Amid Shiv Sena's efforts to form government in Maharashtra with the support of NCP and Congress, senior Sena leader Sanjay Raut stressed that the saffron party would "neither be defeated nor be afraid" while blaming BJP chief Amit Shah over the impasse in government formation in Maharashtra.

"Ab haarna aur darna manaa hai," the Rajya Sabha member and Sena's spokesman tweeted, a day after he was discharged from the Lilavati Hospital, where he underwent an angioplasty procedure on Monday.

The 57-year-old firebrand Sena leader also tweeted a motivational Hindi couplet, saying, "Haar ho jaati hai jab maan liya jaata hai, jeet tab hoti hai jab thaan liya jaata hai" (defeat happens when one accepts it, victory happens when one is determined).