Shiv Sena (UBT) has blamed the Congress for making a mess of the INDIA bloc and Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). It said in an editorial in Saamana, the party’s mouthpiece, on Monday that being the largest Opposition party, the Congress was responsible for holding the bloc together.

The editorial said INDIA needed unity, leadership, and if possible a convenor, to strongly fight the BJP. It requested the Congress to keep interacting with the other Opposition parties. It asked who was responsible if the people thought that INDIA at the national level and MVA at the state level, were messy. There was a time when both fronts had created confidence in the people that the BJP could be beaten. But now, both are inactive and have lost their sheen, it added.