Continuing to maintain an ambivalent stance over a possible alliance between the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), MNS chief Raj Thackeray on September 19, 2022 said that reports of the two parties formally coming together were only emanating from the press and nowhere else.
“I have been hearing reports about the BJP and MNS coming together only from media,” said Mr. Thackeray, who is currently on a five-day tour of the Vidarbha region to rebuild his party’s moribund organisation there.
Mr. Thackeray, who had held a meeting of his office-bearers a day before, told his partymen that if anyone who wanted to become big in a particular region had to fight with ‘established parties’ there. The BJP is the dominant party in Nagpur while both the saffron party as well as the opposition Congress have strongholds in the Vidarbha region, where the MNS virtually lacks any presence.
