Mr. Patole also said state Congress leaders will meet in Mumbai later in the day wherein they will be taking a stand on the situation.
Nagpur: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Tuesday said there was no threat to the state Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government and his party leaders would discuss the current political developments in the state during a meeting in Mumbai.
Mr. Patole’s comments were about Maharashtra minister Eknath Shinde along with some Sena MLAs staying in a five-star hotel in Gujarat’s Surat city, a day after the Sena-led MVA, which also comprises the NCP and Congress, suffered a setback in the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls by losing one out of the six seats it contested.
The Shiv Sena, NCP, and Congress had nominated two candidates each for 10 seats up for grabs, but Congress leader Chandrakant Handore lost the poll. The BJP won all the five seats it contested.
Interacting with the reporters in Nagpur on Tuesday regarding the political ‘crisis’ in Maharashtra, Mr. Patole claimed this was a part of BJP’s politics going on in the country.
Mr. Patole also said state Congress leaders will meet in Mumbai later in the day wherein they will be taking a stand on the situation.
He also assured that there was no threat to the MVA government and claimed that getting the majority figure (in the 288-member state Assembly) was a distant dream for the BJP.
When questioned on Congress MLA’s cross-voting in the MLC elections on Monday, Mr. Patole said, “Cross-voting has been done, we will examine it and convey to the high command about it.”
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan declined to react to state minister Eknath Shinde going incommunicado and camping at a hotel in Gujarat with some Sena MLAs. He, however, said the Congress candidate’s defeat in the Legislative Council polls on Monday was a cause of concern.
“I will not speak on the developments in the Shiv Sena. The Congress is meeting to discuss the Council poll results in which a Dalit face of the party lost. This has sent a very wrong message. We have to discuss what went wrong, how many MLAs cross-voted, and where did the votes go,” Mr. Chavan said while speaking to the reporters in Mumbai before the Congress Legislature Party meeting.
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