Two days after pact, BJP-Sena ministers make conflicting claims

Mumbai: Just two days after their parties inked a pre-poll deal, senior ministers of the BJP and Shiv Sena Wednesday spoke in different voices over “sharing” the chief minister’s post.
BJP minister Chandrakant Patil said his party is of the view that the alliance partner winning more seats (after this year’s Assembly poll) would get the CM’s post.
Rubbishing Patil’s contention, Sena minister Ramdas Kadam said his party forged the alliance with the BJP after there was an agreement to share the chief minister’s post. If the BJP does not wish to fulfil its commitment, it is free to break the pre-poll alliance immediately, he said.
Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray Tuesday night told party workers at his residence here that he had rejected the formula proposing that the party winning maximum number of seats in assembly elections would get the post of chief minister. “This formula was used by both parties (Sena and BJP) in the last 25 years. I have rejected it. What I have demanded is that both the parties get to share all posts equally,” Thackeray said. (PTI)