Updated On: 17 July, 2022 01:04 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI
After the Assembly polls in 2019, the Shiv Sena parted ways with long-term ally BJP over the issue of sharing the chief ministerial post

Sanjay Raut. File pic
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday asked if the BJP and NCP`s tie-up after the Maharashtra Assembly polls in 2019 was a "natural alliance". Raut`s remarks came after statements of some rebel Shiv Sena legislators that the party`s alliance with the NCP and Congress, to form government under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray (after the BJP-NCP government collapsed in three days in 2019), was an "unnatural" alliance and hurt the Sena.
After the Assembly polls in 2019, the Shiv Sena parted ways with long-term ally BJP over the issue of sharing the chief ministerial post. NCP leader Ajit Pawar subsequently joined hands with the BJP to form government. BJP`s Devendra Fadnavis was then sworn in as the chief minister and Pawar as his deputy at a hush-hush ceremony in the Raj Bhawan. But, Pawar returned to his party after three days and the Fadnavis government collapsed.