The decision came soon after reports that some Shiv Sena MLAs along with party leader Eknath Shinde moved to Surat posing threat to the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi govt.
Maharashtra political crisis LIVE: The political crisis in Maharashtra was set off by senior Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde following a disagreement with Uddhav Thackeray over an alliance with the NCP and Congress.
Speculations are in full swing a day after MLC elections in Maharashtra when Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde and around 35 party MLAs suddenly decided to camp in Gujarat's Surat. The question here is whether the MVA government will survive this crisis or not.
Stating that there was no control among MVA constituents -- Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, the BJP leader said, "There was complete negligence towards problems of the people."
Maharashtra minister Eknath Shinde along with some Sena MLAs apparently went camping in Gujarat's Surat city, a day after the Sena-led MVA suffered in the MLC polls by losing one out of the six seats it contested.
Resorting to resort politics, Shiv Sena has already shifted its MLAs to Trident Hotel in Malad on Tuesday ahead of the Rajya Sabha polls.
Both NCP and Congress are constituents in the Shiv Sena-led Maharashtra government which completed two-and-a-half years in power only last month.
Earlier in the day, Railway Minister and BJP's observer for Rajya Sabha elections in Maharashtra, Ashwini Vaishnaw, held a meeting with state BJP leaders. The Leader of Opposition, Devendra Fadnavis, stated that all the MLAs should vote as per their conscience.
Raut had alleged in a press conference last month that some Enforcement Directorate officers were acting as an “ATM” for the BJP. He had also said the Mumbai Police were probing extortion charges against four officers of the Central agency and some of them will go to jail.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut had earlier said that action taken by Central agencies like the Enforcement Directorate in Maharashtra was an attack on the state Home department which needs to be strengthened.
There were allegations of misconduct and corruption against former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray addressed the Shiv Sena leaders via video conferencing in the meeting today.
AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel has caused a flutter in political circles by suggesting an alliance with the MVA.
Devendra Fadnavis said that five-year tenure of some 15 municipal corporations and 25 zilla parishads will be completed this month. If their elections are held without any political quota to the OBCs, then the OBCs will suffer for the next five years.
The Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly said the apex court's decision is "another tight slap" on the face of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress for its "unconstitutional, unethical, unfair, illegal and undemocratic actions"
The case is linked to the alleged attack on a Shivsena worker, Santosh Parab.
In his weekly column 'Rokhthok' in the Sena mouthpiece Saamana on the completion of Thackeray's two years in office, Raut said falsehood doesn't always succeed in politics.
Shiv Sena said it can understand the use of central agencies for targeting leaders of the MVA government, adding that the harassment of their family members shows the inhuman face of the BJP.
In Panchayat Samiti bypolls, Congress won the highest 36 of the 144 seats on offer followed by BJP 33, Shiv Sena 23 and NCP 18 seats, SEC results showed.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has said that there is no truth in the opposition's propoganda of any "threat" to the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra.
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