Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Maharashtra minister Chandrakant Patil and Union Minister for petroleum Dharmendra Pradhan will be meeting Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday evening fuelling speculations yet again about a truce between the two former allies on power sharing in the state.
According to sources, broad contours of a power sharing deal has been agreed upon. With less than a fortnight to go for the crucial winter session of the state assembly and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) speaking in multiple voices on support to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis government, the BJP knows the need to get the Sena on board to be numerically comfortable.
The BJP has a total of 122 seats in the 288-member Maharashtra assembly and the Sena is the second largest party with 63 MLAs. While the BJP does not have majority without Sena, the Sena too, cannot play the role of an effective opposition party in the state as it continues to share power at the Centre.
Comments
0 comment