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NEW DELHI: Even as the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government is facing a litmus test in Maharashtra, the Congress on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government of trying to destabilise a stable government in Maharashtra ahead of presidential polls. The Grand Old Party also said that all the three alliance partners will remain united.
Speaking to the media here, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said, “BJP and Centre are fully responsible for destabilising a stable government in Maharashtra to form their own government in the state. They are also doing it for Presidential polls.”
“I want to say that we all – Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena – will stay together and fight together,” the veteran Congress leader said.
Kharge also accused the BJP of using the same truck in the past in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Goa.
The MVA government faced a coupe led by rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, who is camping in Assam’s Guwahati with over 40 MLAs. He has left Mumbai with his loyal Shiv Sena MLAs to Gujarat’s Surat and from there they flew to Guwahati and are camping in a luxurious hotel.
Amid the political crisis in the MVA government in Maharashtra, three more Shiv Sena MLAs joined the rebel camp led by cabinet minister Eknath Shinde.
Earlier in the day, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi also accused the BJP of being “blind to the pain” of the people of the Northeast suffering from floods and said that instead of focussing on relief measures, the party is trying to destabilise the government in Maharashtra.
Speaking to media at party headquarters here, Gogoi said, “We all know there are currently floods in Assam, in Meghalaya. In the past, whenever there have been floods or any natural disaster, a responsible central government sends a team of ministers and the Prime Minister visits himself to assess the situation and to offer relief and urgent aid.”
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi is either busy campaigning for Gujarat elections or trying to destabilise a government in Maharashtra,” he said.
“This is cold-hearted, brutal, insensitive and never before have we seen that at a time when people do not even have water, the government is diverting its resources toward its own political ambitions,” Gogoi said.
