Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray has said he is not opposed to an alliance with Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and believes a partnership would help Maharashtra.
"I have said it in the past and saying it today that an alliance between our two parties would be in the interest of Maharashtra's development," Thackeray said on Tuesday.
"Pawar is an old friend and I have been saying that if the two parties come together, it would be in the interest of Maharashtra," he was quoted by PTI as saying.
Thackeray has offered to work with the NCP at least twice: in 2006 and in 2005. Asked about Sena's alliance with NCP in the mayoral elections in Pune Municipal Corporation, Thackeray said, "The two parties together can do a lot in the state."
Pawar had said on Saturday said that his party is open to alliances with any party, including the Shiv Sena.
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