BJP Karnataka takes a swipe at Siddarmaiah, asks 'What happened to your ideology?'

Amid the ongoing President's rule in Maharashtra caused due to a rift in the alliance between the BJP and Shiv Sena, which consequently lead to the Shiv Sena approaching the INC and NCP for support in their hopes on government formation, BJP Karnataka took to its official Twitter handle and has slammed the former Chief Minister of Karnataka Siddarmaiah questioning the alliance. The Karnataka wing of the BJP tweeted, "What happened to your ideology?". 

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BJP Karnataka's tweet slamming Siddarmaiah

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Cause of the downfall of BJP-Sena alliance

During the 2019 assembly elections in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena claimed that they were promised a 50:50 formula in the cabinet. However, the BJP denies promising anything of this sort to the party. In the Assembly elections, BJP won 105 seats, while Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress won 56, 54 and 44 seats respectively. After BJP officially declared that they would not form the government, the governor of Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshiyari invited the second largest party to stake its claim and Shiv Sena had to give an answer to the governor by 7:30 pm on Monday, November 11. The only option left with the three remaining parties in Maharashtra is to form the government by supporting each other.

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The birth of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance

The saffron parties, with a unified cause of Hindutva, officially aligned and became a part of the BJP-led NDA in 1989 as they contested the Lok Sabha elections together. However, the political cartoonist Balasaheb Thackeray formed the Shiv Sena party back in 1966. In the initial years, the party’s focus was advocating for the Marathi Manus (man), but they eventually broadened their view and they started supporting the Hindutva ideology. They took part in the BMC elections since their inception and officially allied with BJP in 1989. After Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray passed away in 2012, the long-running alliance between the parties broke off for a brief period in 2014. However, they came back together very quickly and stayed together throughout the first term of the Modi government.

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