India, July 3 -- Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray, whose party suffered a body blow with the defection of six MPs to the ruling Shiv Sena, alleges that the BJP wants to shore up the NDA government's numbers to push through the delimitation bill at the centre. The endgame, he claims, is to increase the Lok Sabha representation of North India while crushing the voice of Maharashtra and that of the southern states. The BJP also wants to amend the Constitution to push its own agenda, he says.

To achieve these twin goals, he claims, the BJP is using deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, who "bought" the rebel MPs. The party is also raising Shinde's equity as a section within the BJP wants to keep Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fad...