Senior Congress leader, Ashok Chavan, admitted that party president Sonia Gandhi was against joining ranks with the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.
Aurangabad| Congress president Sonia Gandhi had sought a written undertaking from the Shiv Sena that the new government in Maharashtra would work within the ambit of the Constitution, former CM Ashok Chavan has said.
“The state party leadership had to impress upon the party president to agree to join the government in Maharashtra after the BJP and Sena could not reconcile their differences,” he added.
Gandhi had given clear guidelines that the state government must work within the frame of Constitution, the state PWD minister said at a meeting in Nanded on Sunday.
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“She told us that first, we should get this in writing (from Sena) that the government should work within the ambit of the Constitution and shouldn’t violate the Constitution preamble. We were told to convey this to Uddhav Thackeray,” said Chavan.
Chavan, a minister in the Uddhav Thackeray-led government, said Gandhi had also told state Congress leaders that if the government doesn’t function as expected, the party should quit.
“We conveyed the same to Thackeray. He agreed and we went to form the government,” Chavan said.
Uddhav Thackeray was sworn in CM in November 2019 and is heading an alliance government with the Congress and NCP.
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