Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai

Mumbai, Nov 17: After Maha government announced the re-opening of religious places from Monday, November 17, former allies Shiv Sena and BJP made strong statements. Talking on the matter, BJP leader and leader of Opposition in the legislative council Pravin Darekar, said the state government should have opened all religious places earlier itself.

“We do not want credit for this, let the government keep it. But it is true the government took this decision only after Hindu religious groups along with the BJP protested,” said Darekar after meeting the Governor at Raj Bhavan.

Meanwhile, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said the decision was neither a victory nor defeat for anybody and that religious places were closed after PM Narendra Modi ordered a lockdown, a report by TOI stated.

“The SOPs drafted by the government need to be followed strictly. There is no need to take credit. It was god’s will that people stay at home, and now it is god’s will that places of worship reopen with precautions,” Raut said.