Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday asked if the BJP and NCP's tie-up after the Maharashtra Assembly polls in 2019 was a "natural alliance". Raut's remarks came after statements of some rebel Shiv Sena legislators that the party's alliance with the NCP and Congress, to form government under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray (after the BJP-NCP government collapsed in three days in 2019), was an "unnatural" alliance and hurt the Sena.

After the Assembly polls in 2019, the Shiv Sena parted ways with long-term ally BJP over the issue of sharing the chief ministerial post. NCP leader Ajit Pawar subsequently joined hands with the BJP to form government. BJP's Devendra Fadnavis was then sworn in as the chief minister and Pawar as his deputy at a hush-hush ceremony in the Raj Bhawan. But, Pawar returned to his party after three days and the Fadnavis government collapsed.