Speaking to TOI, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis admitted that the alliance with the Shiv Sena went through a rough patch, for which both paid "a heavy price", but he said things were looking up for the allies now. "It was a bad patch in the more than three-decade-long alliance of the the BJP and Shiv Sena. It should not have happened," he added.

Source: 'Both BJP, Sena paid heavy price for ending ties'