VHP on Saturday attributed the poor performance of BJP-Shiv Sena combine in Maharashtra Assembly elections to giving up of Hindutva issues and downplaying of Uma Bharti's 'Tiranga Yatra'.
"Emotive issues" are more important in elections unlike those of governance and development, which do not fetch votes, VHP's Senior Vice President Acharya Giriraj Kishore said.
"Neither BJP nor Shiv Sena had any issue that could influence people," he said.
"The parties have paid for giving up Hindutva issues," Kishore said adding that BJP-Sena combine could have got a better result if they had associated Hindutva ideology to their plank of governance and development.
Kishore attacked the two parties for not playing up the issues of Savarkar portrait and opposition to monument of Mughal warrior Afzal Khan.