The Shiv Sena on Tuesday warned its ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Maharashtra coalition government not to invite the 'wrath' of the farming community writhing under natural calamities and resorting to suicides. "We may be a part of the governments in the Centre and the state, but we will not bow before the BJP... Whenever required we will speak up in the interests of the people, as we have made clear from the beginning," the Shiv Sena said in an edit in the party mouthpiece Saamana. Reiterating that the farmers' interests were "primary to the Shiv Sena", the party said it would not desist from sitting on the government's "neck" to fulfil the 2014 election promises made to the farming community. "Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis claims to have sought maximum aid from the Centre to help the farmers... But union Agriculture Minister Radhamohan Singh proved both Devendra Fadnavis and state agriculture minister (Eknath Khadse) wrong on this issue," the Sena said. Singh denied that any such proposal was received from Maharashtra and later Khadse proved him (Singh) wrong on this count. "The ministers are busy calling each other liars... So, the question is, who is playing with the lives of the farmers? In the midst of this, the country's farmers are ruined and starving," the Sena said.
