New Delhi:
The Shiv Sena will contest the assembly elections in West Bengal due later this year, the party’s Sanjay Raut announced on Sunday, jutting into the higher-pitched contest in between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and a surging BJP.
“So, here is the much-awaited update. After discussions with Party Chief Shri Uddhav Thackeray, Shivsena has decided to contest the West Bengal Assembly Elections. We are reaching Kolkata soon,” Mr Raut, an MP and the party’s top rated spokesperson, tweeted.
So, right here is the substantially awaited update.
After discussions with Party Chief Shri Uddhav Thackeray, Shivsena has decided to contest the West Bengal Assembly Elections.
We are reaching Kolkata quickly…!!
Jai Hind, জয় বাংলা !
— Sanjay Raut (@rautsanjay61) January 17, 2021
The Bengal election has grow to be a closely watched battle nationally with the BJP pumping in its vast sources to carve out a base in the state that has extended eluded it by remaining a communist citadel for 3 decades prior to becoming wrested by Mamata Banerjee in 2011.
After turning quite a few states given that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s win in 2014, the BJP leadership has signalled that they have created Bengal 1 of its top rated priorities in current years, gunning for Ms Banerjee and launching an aggressive poaching campaign from neighborhood parties.
The tumult has opened the Bengal race wider than it has been in years, producing it simpler for a proper-wing outfit like Shiv Sena, deeply rooted in Maharashtra given that its inception, to pry its way into the state exactly where the BJP has strived challenging to pitch Mamata Banerjee as anti-Hindu.
The Shiv Sena has had a patchy take Mamata Banerjee, beaming out occasional sound bites when it came to needling its buddy-turned-foe BJP but slamming her on other occasions for her left-leaning, pro-minority policies.