Maharashtra CM would be from Sena: Sanjay Raut goes tough on BJP
November 01, 2019 10:15 ISTShiv Sena will not compromise and can form the government without the Bharatiya Janata Party, Sena leader Sanjay Raut has said.
Shiv Sena will not compromise and can form the government without the Bharatiya Janata Party, Sena leader Sanjay Raut has said.
In a new twist to the political drama being enacted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, Sanjay Raut, Sena MP and close aide of Uddhav Thackrey, met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Supremo Sharad Pawar.
There is rising intolerance in the country and a skewed vision of history is being imposed with falsehood, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said on Tuesday. She was addressing a gathering at a function here to confer the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration to Chipko Movement founder and environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt.
Amid the power tussle in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena leader Aditya Thackeray on Thursday evening said that the delay in the government formation is not good.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday accused the Modi government of diluting the powers of the Information Commissioners through amendments to the RTI Act and termed it as a "final assault" to decimate the historic legislation.
After emerging victorious in the assembly elections, saffron allies Sena and BJP are locked in a dispute over the power-sharing formula for the new government.
“The Congress party will strongly raise its voice on public issues both inside and outside the state assembly,” she told reporters here.
Former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar was on Wednesday elected NCP's state legislature party leader here. The newly-elected legislators of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) elected him unanimously, state party unit chief Jayant Patil said.
In the backdrop of the tussle between the BJP and Shiv Sena over the CM's post, the BJP elected former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis as the leader of the legislature party on Wednesday.
Within hours after the Kulgam attack on Tuesday that killed six labourers from West Bengal working in Kashmir, politics of a different nature raised its head in the eastern state focussing on Bengal, Bengali and Bengaliness.
The by-elections will be an indication of which way political winds are blowing in the state
The reason the pre-poll alliance announcement before general election between the two parties got delayed because Sena wanted an assurance on Maharashtra polls as well. Now, the Sena is reminding BJP of its "agreement" and alleging it of "stooping" to a new low.
Amid bickering between his party and the Shiv Sena over sharing of power in the next Maharashtra government, senior BJP leader Chandrakant Patil on Tuesday said Amit Shah and Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray will finalise the contours of the "50:50 formula".
Kore declared support to the BJP, locked in a bitter fight with ally Shiv Sena over sharing of power, after meeting Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis here.
"Shiv Sena may talk about having their options open but they are also aware that if Congress-NCP come together to form the government, their (Sena's) aggressive Hindu politics would be affected," a BJP leader said.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday hit out at Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for claiming the party mouthpiece 'Saamana', of which the former is executive editor, was trying to derail talks on formation of the next government.
The two parties, however, stopped short of criticising the scheme itself, saying other sections of people, including senior citizens and students, should also be brought under its ambit.
The development might potentially worsen the already strained relationship between the two parties. A senior Sena leader told PTI the meet, scheduled to be held here at 4 pm, was cancelled by Thackeray after the CM's statement on sharing of power
Fadnavis's statement comes amid a serious tussle between the BJP and Shiv Sena on "50:50" ratio in government formation. Shiv Sena wants the chief minister's chair for 2.5 years. Udhav Thackeray-led party wants a written assurance from the BJP regarding the same.
Earlier on Monday, Sanjay Raut had upped the ante against ally BJP, saying his party should not be compelled to look for an alternative to form the next government in Maharashtra and asserted there are "no saints in politics".
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