Mumbai : The Repulican Party of India (A) would quit the ‘Mahayuti’ (grand alliance) if the senior partners continue to ignore, party president Ramdas Athawale has said.
RPI (A) had tied up with Hitendra Thakur’s Bahujan Vikas Aghadi in the Vasai-Virar municipal election, results of which were declared yesterday. Athawale said that his party would part ways with the BJP-Shiv Sena in other upcoming local body polls also if it was not given a fair share of seats.
“We want to keep our alliance intact in the upcoming Kalyan-Dombivali, Thane and Mumbai corporation polls. But, this can happen only when the BJP and the Shiv Sena give us a fair share of seats in the local body elections,” Athawale told reporters here. “We had decided to part ways before the election as we were not given even a single seat to contest in the Vasai-Virar municipal election,” he said. BVA bagged 106 of 115 seats in Vasai-Virar where the Sena-BJP could win only six seats.
