Union Minister Raosaheb Patil Danve told Devendra Fadnavis that the Shiv Sena currently has not made any calls to the BJP.
Mumbai: BJP authorities on Wednesday said that the present political crisis was an internal matter of the Shiv Sena and the BJP was not taking authority to form a government.
Bharatiya Janata Party head and Union Minister Raosaheb Patil Danve told sources that no official from the Sena was in contact with the opposition party.
“We haven’t spoken to Eknath Shinde. This is Shiv Sena’s internal matter. BJP has nothing to do with this. We’re not staking a claim to form the government,” commented Danve, the present Minister of Railways for Maharashtra.
On Wednesday amidst the state’s political turmoil, rebel camp leader Eknath Shinde added that it was necessary for the Sena to relieve itself of their “unnatural alliance” with the BJP.
Maharashtra under the Thackeray government presently struggled to stay afloat amidst internal crisis due to mutiny within the party. CM Thackeray commented on Wednesday that he was willing to resign the CM post if the party members wished so.
“If my own people don’t want me as Chief Minister, he should walk up to me and say so… I’m ready to resign… I am Balasaheb’s son, I am not after a post,” said CM Thackeray.
He commented on the issue that the MLAs need not have to fly to Gujarat, instead would have expressed their grievances directly to him.
The Sena patriarch added that it was a matter of shame if “even a single MLA” was against him.
According to official sources, if Thackeray was to be displaced under a no-confidence motion the opposition requires 37 MLAs from the Sena’s 106 to abandon the allegiance and switch camps.
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