Despite their sweep in Maharashtra, the knives seem to be out in the Shiv Sena and BJP with two Sena MPs who lost to their opponents blaming leaders from their alliance partner for their defeat.
After Chandrakant Khaire, who lost to the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen's (AIMIM) Imtiaz Jaleel in Aurangabad, his party colleague Anandragy66o Adsul, who was trounced by Congress-NCP backed independent Navneet Kaur Rana in Amravati, has claimed that BJP leaders worked to ensure his opponent's victory."(Kaur) was helped by leaders from the ruling party," said Adsul, a former minister of state and five-term MP. He admitted that Kaur, an actress, who contested as a nominee of her husband and Badnera MLA Ravi Rana's Yuva Swabhimaan party, had claimed if elected, she would support Narendra Modi as she was an independent. Rana is an independent MLA but is known for his proximity to senior BJP leaders.