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State scan: Is relationship between Shiv Sena and BJP well and truly over?

BJP, Shiv Sena rift gets wider after Rane's 'slap CM' remark

After Rane’s remark, signs of BJP & Sena patching up have vanished.
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After Rane’s remark, signs of BJP & Sena patching up have vanished.

Aditi Phadnis
“At the end of the day, a (political) alliance is like a marriage. For it to work, you need to have a spouse, and one mouse,” said a Maharashtra politician.
 
“But people are not always ready to accept that. These are politicians: Human beings who are ambitious, impatient and convinced of their own greatness. Introducing Narayan Rane as a central player in the Maharashtra mix is the surest indication that the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), once locked in a marriage, can never come together again,” he added.
 
The breakup of the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance,