Mumbai:
As the
government formation process picked momentum in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena
president Uddhav Thackeray on Friday met his party’s legislators to discuss the
political situation in the state.
Sena MLA Bhaskar Jadhav told PTI that the meeting was
convened to apprise the legislators of the government formation process and
meetings of Congress-NCP leaders in Delhi.
Thackeray
met NCP president Sharad Pawar in Mumbai last night. Jadhav said whatever
decision Thackeray takes will be binding on all legislators of Shiv Sena.
“We would like Uddhavji or Aaditya Thackeray to be the CM,” he added.
Results of the October 21 Assembly polls were declared on
October 24 and President’s rule was imposed in the state on November 12 after
no party or combine staked claim to form the new government. The state was plunged into a political crisis after
the Sena broke its three-decade-long ties with the BJP after the latter
declined to share the chief minister’s post.
The BJP and Sena, which fought the Assembly polls in
alliance, had secured a comfortable majority by winning 105 and 56 seats,
respectively, in the 288-member Assembly. The Congress and the NCP, pre-poll
allies, won 44 and 54 seats, respectively.
For the better part of this week, Delhi was the centre of
marathon meetings between top leaders of the NCP and Congress to explore the
possibility of forging an alliance with the Shiv Sena, a party whose ideology
is poles apart from the duo. (PTI)
