AIMIM, BMM's proposed tie-up "bogus", will help BJP: Sena

Terming the proposed pre-poll alliance between the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Prakash Ambedkar-led Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) as "bogus", the Shiv Sena said Monday that such a political move is not a good omen.

The alliance would only benefit the BJP, the Sena claimed, alleging that the move by the BBM chief, who is the grandson of late Dr B R Ambedkar, is akin to betraying people of his own community.

The political alliance of Owaisi and Ambedkar is only for someone's defeat and is a well-planned strategy," it said, without naming any party.

Leaders of the AIMIM and the BBM had said Saturday that both parties will forge an alliance for the Lok Sabha and Maharashtra Assembly polls in 2019.

Asaduddin Owaisi, chief of the Hyderabad-headquartered AIMIM, had said that preliminary talks held between the two parties yielded positive results.

"The proposed political alliance of the AIMIM and Prakash Ambedkar's front of scheduled castes is not a good omen," the Sena said in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamana'