Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has equated relations between saffron alliance partners Shiv Sena and BJP with a quarreling husband-wife.
"It is like this couple we once had as neighbours. The husband used to beat the wife each morning and in the evening, take her out to Chowpatty and treat her to bhel and coconut water. Our relationship may be like this," the 82-year old Thackeray said. Sena mouthpiece Saamana today carried an interview with the party supremo who has expressed his views on topics like Hindutva, current national politics and son Uddhav s ability to lead the party ahead of state assembly elections.
Thackeray, who is known to enjoy cordial relations with NCP chief Sharad Pawar, evaded a query on chances of the Maratha leader to become Prime Minister, saying he did not want to comment on the issue as of now. Noting that he did not look at belligerent nephew Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena from a political point of view, Thackeray said Raj is using my old agenda . "I don't look at Raj from a political point of view. He grew up at my house. I wonder what he has become now", Thackeray said about Raj, who broke away from the Sena in 2006 and set up MNS in 2007.
