Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai

Mumbai, Nov 28: Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray said that all the allied forces supporting the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will continue to fight all the elections including Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) poll while speaking to selected media at his official residence Varsha in South Mumbai.

Thackeray is heading the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance ministry and the MVA completed a year in the office on Saturday, November 28.

"The MVA will fight all elections including the BMC poll (due in 2022) together," Thackeray said over speculations that the MVA allies will fight the polls separately. He added saying that he did not feel the need to react as he is convinced the alliance to continue.

He asserted that the government is stable and although ideologically the allied partners differ, yet the common ground binding the three party together is the interest of the state and welfare of the people.

"We were in ideological alliance earlier but the very foundation of that ideology, (based on) trust and faith, was betrayed," Thackeray said speaking of the times the Shiv Sena shared powers with the BJP in 1995-99 and again in 2014-19.

Shiv Sena termed the BJP to have a dark mind while defending his party's alliance with Congress and NCP. "You will now realize what we went through when we were in alliance with the BJP. The pervert mind is now exposed," Thackeray said.

Speaking on Hindutva, he said, "My definition of Hindutva hasn't changed. It is cultured and not pervert like the BJP. Culture is very important in Hindutva."