Updated On: 03 June, 2023 02:27 PM IST | Mumbai | PTI
The undivided Shiv Sena and BJP together won a comfortable majority in the 288-member Assembly, but Thackeray broke the decades-old alliance after accusing the BJP of not sharing the chief ministerial tenure equally as promised

Vinod Tawde. Pic/Twitter@TawdeVinod
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary Vinod Tawde has said his party should not have aligned with the Shiv Sena in the 2019 Assembly elections in Maharashtra as the Uddhav Thackeray-led party could never digest playing second fiddle in the alliance.
The undivided Shiv Sena and BJP together won a comfortable majority in the 288-member Assembly, but Thackeray broke the decades-old alliance after accusing the BJP of not sharing the chief ministerial tenure equally as promised.