MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Wednesday took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for following an open-door policy, a pattern for the last 11 years of first accusing opposition leaders of corruption, then letting them in after "purifying" them.
The Thackeray camp in the party's mouthpiece, 'Saamana', said this open-door policy has emerged as a point of deep contention for party veterans.
The editorial referred to former BJP Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar’s outburst expressing significant discontent with the current state of the party, comparing its organisational structure to the village of Shani Shingnapur, known for houses without doors. While the BJP secured the most seats in recent municipal council and nagar panchayat elections across Maharashtra, the party suffered a major setback in Mungantiwar’s home district of Chandrapur.