Ideology first, power later for BJP: Fadnavis rejects tie-ups with Congress, AIMIM

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Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has strongly rejected post-poll alliances formed by local BJP units with ideological rivals, including the Congress and the AIMIM for Maharashtra local body elections.

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00:00Big breaking news coming in from Maharashtra.

00:02It seems that the post-pol alliances which were made,

00:06which were quite unique and were raising eyebrows,

00:09now have been put aside by the Chief Minister Devendra Patnavesh himself.

00:15He has said that ideology is first and power is later for BJP.

00:21Remember in Akola, in District Akola,

00:23there was an alliance that was made with Sudhuddin Ovesi's AIMIM

00:28and now it seems that the Chief Minister who was not happy with it

00:33has told him to end that alliance and also an alliance between Congress and BJP

00:38saying that ideology is supreme.

00:43And joining us now is India Today's Vidya on this issue.

00:47Vidya, you know, these alliances that we saw in Maharashtra,

00:51that two post-election alliances, they were very surprising

00:56and now it seems that the top man has put them aside.

01:07Okay, we'll try and speak to Vidya in a bit,

01:09but let's try and explain to you what really happened.

01:12We saw the local body elections being held after many years in Maharashtra

01:17and in that, in many municipal councils later on after the election,

01:22we saw alliances emerging which people couldn't really wrap their heads around

01:27and it seems that the Chief Minister Devendra Patnavesh also could not wrap his head around

01:32this alliance that was made by the BJP.

01:34BJP made an alliance with the Asaduddin Ovesi's party AIMIM.

01:39BJP made an alliance with the Congress party which is supposed to be its ideological rival

01:46and they ended up making a local body alliance together

01:52and that is what upset the Maharashtra Chief Minister

01:57and he has made it clear that all these alliances do not have his permission,

02:02they do not have his blessings

02:03and he has warned the local leaders who went ahead and made these alliances

02:07that they need to put these alliances aside.

02:11Remember, the BJP had entered into a post-pol alliance

02:14with the Congress and AIMIM in some municipal councils of Maharashtra

02:21and these tie-ups have now been rejected by Devendra Patnavesh

02:26and he has warned of action against the party leaders

02:29who were involved in forming these alliances.

02:32Now, the civic elections were held last month

02:35and the BJP joined hands with Congress

02:38and the Ajit Pawar led NCP as well

02:42under the banner of Ambarnath Vikas Agadi

02:45and it seems that Vidya now joins us on the phone line.

02:51Vidya, all these alliances that we had seen,

02:55BJP AIMIM, BJP Congress, of course,

02:58these were something that people couldn't really understand the basis of.

03:02So, what is happening now?

03:04What has the Chief Minister said?

03:07Well, the Chief Minister has, of course,

03:09come down heavily on the BJP unit

03:11which has gone and formed this alliance

03:12and asked for it to be withdrawn immediately

03:14and it is a similar case with the Congress as well

03:17which claims that they did not know,

03:20the senior leaders of the Congress party

03:21did not know in the state

03:23as to whether this kind of alliance was being formed

03:26at a very local level.

03:27Though they are saying that, you know,

03:29it was formed because of very local issues

03:32against the Ekna Sinde faction

03:35that took at Ambarnath

03:36that they had formed the alliance with the BJP

03:38but because it goes against the ethos

03:41that the party really stands for now

03:43that the party has now decided

03:45to suspend those very leaders

03:47who, you know,

03:48they issued a show cause notice

03:50and suspension letter

03:51to the bloc leader of Ambarnath

03:54as well as those leaders,

03:55elected leaders

03:56who had formed this kind of coalition in Ambarnath

04:01and that's one of the reasons

04:02why Congress too

04:03is coming down heavily on its own leaders

04:05and there

04:06and it's a similar case with the BJP

04:09with the Chief Minister now expressing

04:10that, you know,

04:12local leaders who have formed this

04:14will have to break off this alliance

04:16before it gets out of hand.

04:18Right.

04:19Thank you Vidya for all those details.

04:21So, clearly now the party top leaders

04:23are putting an end to this uneasy alliance

04:26that we were seeing happening at local levels.

Ideology first, power later for BJP: Fadnavis rejects tie-ups with Congress, AIMIM

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