“Uddhav Thackeray will address the meeting of party MLAs and other senior leaders on November 22 in Mumbai,” said the Sena leader
Mumbai: Both the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)-Congress are yet to decide over government formation in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena has called a meeting of all its MLAs and senior leaders here on November 22, said a Sena leader on Tuesday.
The Sena MLAs have been told to carry their Aadhaar and PAN cards and also five sets of clothing as they would be required to stick together for the next few days.
ShivSena supremo Uddhav Thackeray will address the meeting, which is expected to deliberate on the future course of action in the backdrop of the three main parties making efforts to form the government in Maharashtra currently which is under President’s rule.
“Uddhav Thackeray will address the meeting of party MLAs and other senior leaders on November 22 in Mumbai,” said the Sena leader. The meeting will discuss the party’s future course of action and will also see interaction with newly-elected Sena MLAs.
In Maharashtra polls, ShivSena won 56 seats but refused to form the government with its pre-poll ally BJP (105 seats) after the latter turned down its demand for rotational chief ministership.
After the two saffron parties parted ways, the Sena reached out to the Congress-NCP, its political rivals till recently, to explore the possibility of forming an alternative government in the country’s richest state.
Despite several rounds of talks between leaders of the three parties in Mumbai and Delhi, the possibility of a Sena-led government still remains at a nascent stage. The ShivSena has repeatedly said the next chief minister of Maharashtra will be from the party.
On Monday NCP president Sharad Pawar held a meeting with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in Delhi.
later on, Sharad Pawar said if the NCP-Congress has to take a view on government formation, they have to first discuss it between themselves.
The two sides have deputed leaders for holding talks on a possible alliance with the Sena, a party closely associated with Hindutva and anti-Congress.
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