Won't accept formula of party with highest seats getting Chief Ministerial post, declares Uddhav Thackeray
Sharad Pawar's NCP, Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said that he would not accept the formula of the biggest party in the Maha Vikas Aghadi getting the chief minister's post after the assembly polls.
Thackeray said that the Congress and the NCP-SP should declare a chief ministerial candidate before the assembly polls and that he is ready to support any candidate declared by the two parties.
«I don't want this experience that we had with the BJP to be recreated again. We were together for 25-30 years and we had an arrangement that the party with the most seats would get the CM post. So, by this logic if you get more seats, you will become CM… so I will pull you down (ensure that the ally does not win) and the other party will pull me down. Then what is the purpose of an alliance,» said Thackeray.
He was addressing a joint meeting of party cadres of his faction of the UBT Sena as well as the Congress and the NCP-SP faction in Mumbai.
Thackeray added that he was not interested in the CM post and was ready to support any of the joint candidates decided by both the Congress and NCP-SP but it should be done prior to the assembly polls.
«Let the Congress and Sharad Pawar declare the candidate, I am ready to support the candidate and let's not fight over seats. If some seats go to the Congress, then it does not mean that Shiv Sena and NCP-SP will not work for it.
Similarly if the Sena gets some seats, then it should not mean that the NCP and Congress do not work. We need to be united not just in words but in action too,»
