New Delhi: Shiv Sena on July 24 said it has no love lost with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) despite its leader Sharad Pawar sticking to the foreign origin issue of Sonia Gandhi and said the party considered both the Congress as also the NCP as "enemy number one politically".

"Both the Congress and the NCP are our political enemy number one, even if they remain united or are separate," party general secretary Subhash Desai told reporters.

When told that Pawar has remained steadfast to opposition of Gandhi becoming Prime Minister in spite of the changed scenario after the Congress's Shimla conclave, he did not attach much importance to it saying that the Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray had first raised the foreign origin issue.

"Our stand on this issue is consistent. We drove out the British because they were foreigners," he said, but sidestepped questions on the mixed signals being given by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the issue concerning Gandhi.

Each party has to decide about its own stance and handle the situation on its own, he said when asked whether the Sena wanted to give any advice or suggestion to the BJP, being the oldest partner of the saffron party.

Desai welcomed the Supreme Court's observation on the need for a uniform civil code in the country and said his party would seek a special discussion on the issue in the Lok Sabha.

The Sena leader was critical of the Cong-NCP coalition government in Maharashtra for its "failure" to arrest the financial crisis in the state and announced that Sena would put before the people a definite plan for financial management ahead of the Assembly elections.

PTI