Mumbai
Virtually challenging the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Shiv Sena has said that “whoever has a majority in the state can form the government”, here on Monday.
“We have no hurdles in forming the government… Whoever has the majority can form the government in the state,” Shiv Sena’s aggressive MP Sanjay Raut said here on.
He was interacting briefly with the media after paying a courtesy call on Maharashtra Governor B. S. Koshyari, accompanied by state minister Ramdas Kadam, at the Raj Bhavan this evening.
They also said they had discussed the state political scenario in the wake of the assembly elections results and the subsequent logjam in forming the government, with Raut on Sunday claiming the support of 175 legislators with the Sena.
Raut also presented Koshyari with a book by the late Shiv Sena founder-patriarch Bal Thackeray and two books by current party President Uddhav Thackeray.
The meeting assumes significance in the wake of the tug-of-war between the two warring allies BJP-Sena over the question of formation of government, 10 days after the polls outcome.
Earlier today, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis met BJP President and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi, and said that a BJP-led government would be formed soon, but declined to comment on their confabulations.
Later this evening, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar are meeting in the national capital to discuss the state political imbroglio and discuss options to form a new government.
NCP state President Jayant Patil said that a Shiv Sena-led government would assume power in the state and any attempts by the BJP to engineer Sena MLAs would be thwarted by the Opposition parties. (IANS)
