Shiv Sena leaders resign over seat sharing with BJP |
As they were starting to make merry, a major setback hit the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance, as ahead of the state Assembly polls slated for October 21, as many as 26 Sena corporators from Kalyan-Dombivali and Ulhasnagar areas, and around 300 party workers sent their resignations to party chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday. Expressing unhappiness over the saffron alliance`s seat-sharing formula, Shiv Sena`s corporators and workers submitted their resignation to Thackeray in support of Dhananjay Bodare, a Sena corporator from Ulhasnagar who had raised the flag of rebellion by opting to contest the Kalyan East Assembly constituency as an Independent candidate. Irked local Shiv Sena leaders, who wanted their party to contest that seat, had convened a meeting and directed workers to support Bodare. This is the second en masse resignation in October. Earlier this month, more than 200 Shiv Sena workers in Navi Mumbai had resigned over the Airoli and Belapur seats being offered to the BJP. The Shiv Sena, which has always been the big brother in the 25-year-old saffron alliance in Maharashtra, is contesting 124 seats out of 288 seats in the forthcoming Assembly polls, while the BJP is contesting 150, and other allies will be contesting the remaining 14 seats.
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