Shiv Sena keeps up attack, editorial compares BJP to Muhammad Ghori

Shiv Sena is in talks with the Congress and the NCP to form a non-BJP government in Maharashtra.

The Shiv Sena on Tuesday said its one-time ally BJP was like Muhammad Ghori, the 13th century invader who killed Prithviraj Chauhan who had spared the Muslim general’s life several times in battles.

The Sena, in an editorial in its newspaper Saamana, said it would "uproot" the BJP for challenging it.

The parties fought the Maharashtra Assembly elections together to win 161 seats jointly in the 288-member House but then fell out over the chief minister's post.

The Sena is in talks with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to form a non-BJP government in Maharashtra. In the editorial, the Sena