Chennai, May 10: Shiv Sena today opposed any talks with Pakistan at present and said time was not ripe as Islamabad "was still encouraging cross border terrorism". "That time was not ripe for the talks as Pakistan was still encouraging cross-border terrorism", Shiv Sena MP Shivaji Mane told reporters here. He said his party was not opposed to reservation for women, but against reservation of some constituencies for them. It should be made mandatory on the part of political parties to give seats to women to the extent of 33 per cent, he said. Mane said his party wanted to expand its base and was concentrating in Tamil Nadu, Rajastan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jammu and Kashmir. The party would have alliance with political parties, which accepted 'Hindutua principle' for the next Lok Sabha polls. The party's tie up with BJP was confined to Maharastra alone and it was free to align with any party in other states, he said.
Mane praised the Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa for bringing a law banning forcible religious conversions and for introducing the 'Annadanam' scheme in temples.
Mane, who had been deputed by Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray to revamp the party unit in Tamil Nadu, said a nine member core committee, headed by A Narayanan had been constituted today. The committee would identify the Lok Sabha seats to be contested by the party, he said.
Asked whether the party would seek an alliance with the AIADMK in the state, he said no decision had been take about it so far. Bureau Report