Door still open for tie-up with BJP, hints Uddhav

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena, embroiled in a bitter post-poll confrontation with BJP, has still kept its doors open for reconciliation.
A day after Shiv Sena demand for more time to submit proof of support to form the government in the state was rejected by the governor, party chief Uddhav Thackeray addressed a press conference on Tuesday in which he stopped short of saying that the alliance with the BJP was over.

Asked if “BJP option is completely finished”, Thackeray said: “Why are you in such a hurry? It’s politics. President has given us six months’ time.”
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He said it was BJP who refused to form the government with Shiv Sena by not keeping the promise that it had made before the Lok Sabha polls. “If the option has been exhausted, it would have been done by them and not me. If the alliance has ended, it is BJP that ended it,” Thackeray said.

Thackeray said before the Lok Sabha polls, the situation was such that BJP would not win more than 200-220 seats in Parliament. “It was I who went along with BJP in those dark times. So the option of going with BJP again may have been ended by them,” he said.
He also said that BJP is still reaching out to it, but everyday there is a new offer.
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