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BJP likely to play it quiet on defections to Sena

CM Fadnavis is not keen on making any such move at this point, say sources

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Six MNS corporators joined Shiv Sena on Friday
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Whether to respond by engineering defections in Shiv Sena or to deploy former Chief Minister Narayan Rane to get corporators from Congress to defect to the Bharatiya Janata Party? BJP has, at present, decided to go slow on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) front.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has been asked to take a final call on the issue. The surprise move by Shiv Sena, in which six corporators from Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) defected, is being considered a significant blow to both the MNS and BJP. The blow was struck by Shiv Sena at a time when CM Fadnavis was not in the country.

BJP city unit president, Ashish Shelar, had tweeted on Friday evening that the so-called `Dhamaka' by Shiv Sena proved to be a firecracker, however, with dampened fuel.

BJP city unit sources said that since the issue pertains to the BMC, the party's state unit would not indulge in local politics. But there are two opinions within the party, especially after Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray's statement that if Shiv Sena can do this in one day, BJP has understood what it can do in the state.

One faction in BJP is of the view that former Congress leader Narayan Rane, who recently floated his own outfit Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksh, can help the party to snatch corporators from both Congress and Shiv Sena.

However, sources within the state unit told DNA that Chief Minister Fadnavis was not keen to go for any such defection at this juncture.

Even though Fadnavis will take a final call, it is unlikely that BJP would play spoilsport and it is likely that it would allow Shiv Sena to enjoy the defection of the six MNS corporators. CM Fadnavis had assured the party leadership that he was ready to lead the party for snap polls in the state.

Meanwhile, Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut said in Pune that it was the BJP which was trying to snatch the corporators from Shiv Sena, but failed.

Checkmate

Even though Fadnavis will take a final call, it is unlikely that BJP would play spoilsport. It plans to allow Shiv Sena to enjoy the defection of the six MNS corporators.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut said that it was the BJP which was trying to snatch corporators 

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