{"id":316883,"date":"2019-11-19T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316883"},"modified":"2019-11-19T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T06:41:08","slug":"we-supported-hindutva-before-you-even-born-shiv-senas-fresh-swipe-at-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/we-supported-hindutva-before-you-even-born-shiv-senas-fresh-swipe-at-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Supported Hindutva before you even born\u2019: Shiv Sena\u2019s fresh swipe at BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316512 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/uddhav.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav.jpg 691w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/uddhav-494x420.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/>The Shiv Sena on Tuesday accused the BJP for its ouster from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). In its mouthpiece, Saamana, the Shiv Sena went back in time and said Balasaheb Thackeray formed the NDA along with others at a time when Hindutva was not talked about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe supported Hindutva at a time when nobody touched it\u2026 when you were not even born,\u201d the editorial in the Marathi daily read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Sena also accused the BJP of throwing it out of the NDA on death anniversary of Balasaheb Thackeray.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The political crisis in Maharashtra intensified after the BJP conceded its inability to form the government in state despite having the mandate for its pre-poll alliance with Shiv Sena.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A day ahead of Winter Session of Parliament, the Sena refused to attend a meeting of NDA constituents. Rajya Sabha MP and spokesperson, Sanjay Raut had said that the party would sit in the opposition benches in Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP and Shiv Sena failed to resolve the deadlock over 50-50 power-sharing formula as part of which Sena wanted its candidate to be the chief minister for at least two and half years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP blamed the Sena for insulting the public\u2019s mandate and wished it best to form a government with the support of Congress and NCP.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shiv Sena on Tuesday accused the BJP for its ouster from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). In its mouthpiece, Saamana, the Shiv Sena went back in time and said Balasaheb Thackeray formed the NDA along with others at a time when Hindutva was not talked about. \u201cWe supported Hindutva at a time when nobody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[453,513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316885,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316883\/revisions\/316885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}