![]() ![]() He involved not only the Sena but also other allies and Opposition parties, too, to indicate the BJP is serious on the issue. ![]() Thereafter, BJP leader and education and cultural affairs minister Vinod Tawde took the initiative to prepare a plan for the restoration of forts and monuments in the state. The BJP’s decision to seek the President’s assent on a long-pending Bill seeking to ban beef in Maharashtra caught the Sena unawares, and the latter had to defend the decision publicly and through the party's mouthpiece, Saamna. The MNS, led by Raj Thackeray, had been involved in violent agitation against shopkeepers for not displaying their names in Marathi. ![]() It is also the BJP's systematic effort to outpace the Maharasthtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), which is yet to recover from the party's rout in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. Through the beef ban, protecting historical forts and monuments, revival of Marathi medium schools, and asking multiplexes to show Marathi films during prime time, the BJP is trying to remind its junior partner the latter is not the sole claimant for the cause of Marathi Manoos, Chhatrapati Shivaji and Hindutva. In the run-up to the election to the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), due in 2017, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is using the Marathi and Hindutva card to outsmart its junior partner Shiv Sena.
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