<p>Hours before Uddhav Thackeray meets his legislators, the anti-Shiv Sena sentiments within the Congress grew wider with veteran Sanjay Nirupam speaking out again. </p>.<p>Nirupam, a three-time MP, who had been with Shiv Sena earlier, said that alliance for the Congress with the right-wing saffron party would be disastrous. </p>.<p>"Years ago, the Congress allied with (Mayawati-led) BSP in Uttar Pradesh. They (Congress) party got a beating and it has not been able to stand again (in UP)," Nirupam, a former Mumbai Congress president said.</p>.<p>According to him, the party is making the same mistake in Maharashtra. "Becoming the No.3 party in a Shiv Sena-led government is like buying the Congress (in Maharashtra)," he said.</p>.<p>Nirupam said that Congress president Sonia Gandhi should not come under pressure for an alliance with Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.</p>
<p>Hours before Uddhav Thackeray meets his legislators, the anti-Shiv Sena sentiments within the Congress grew wider with veteran Sanjay Nirupam speaking out again. </p>.<p>Nirupam, a three-time MP, who had been with Shiv Sena earlier, said that alliance for the Congress with the right-wing saffron party would be disastrous. </p>.<p>"Years ago, the Congress allied with (Mayawati-led) BSP in Uttar Pradesh. They (Congress) party got a beating and it has not been able to stand again (in UP)," Nirupam, a former Mumbai Congress president said.</p>.<p>According to him, the party is making the same mistake in Maharashtra. "Becoming the No.3 party in a Shiv Sena-led government is like buying the Congress (in Maharashtra)," he said.</p>.<p>Nirupam said that Congress president Sonia Gandhi should not come under pressure for an alliance with Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.</p>
