Maha polls: Metro shed, Nanar fresh flash points between Sena,

Upcoming metro car shed project in Mumbai's Aarey Colony and the stalled Nanar refinery in the Konkan region are emerging as contentious points between the BJP and ally Shiv Sena at a time when a mutually-agreeable seat-sharing formula for the assembly polls seems eluding them.

Sena has been stridently opposing the Nanar oil refinery project, which was supposed to come up in its stronghold of the coastal Ratnagiri district. It had succeeded in aborting the project earlier this year as a pre-condition for an alliance with the BJP for the Lok Sabha polls.

However, with the assembly elections drawing closer, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday hinted at revival of the project.

Bowing to pressure from the Sena, the state government had announced relocation of the refinery from the ecologically-sensitive Konkan earlier this year.

The Nanar issue came into limelight again recently when Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said the proposed Aarey Colony metro car shed project will go the Nanar way.

On Tuesday, Uddhav's son and Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray, who is tipped to be contesting his maiden assembly poll, raised the pitch against Nanar in Thane.