NCP, CONGRESS weigh backing Shiv Sena |
After the much anticipated meeting between Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday, the two leaders discussed the impasse over government formation in Maharashtra. According to sources, NCP is willing to join a Shiv Sena-led government, with Congress supporting from outside and its nominee getting the speaker`s post. All this would depend on the Sena terminating its alliance with the BJP. NCP has proposed the kind of formula that the Sena-BJP combine had in 1995. The Sena nominee was then CM, while the BJP nominee was deputy chief minister. The Sena nominee would be the CM, and the deputy CM would be from NCP. BJP has won 105 assembly seats, Sena 56 and NCP and Congress 54 and 44 respectively. After his meeting, Pawar told reporters that it was for the BJP to form the state government with its ally Sena since they had the numbers. Even 11 days after the declaration of assembly poll results, there was no clarity yet on the formation of a new government in the state. The Congress and NCP might join the Sena`s efforts provided Uddhav Thackeray personally invites the two parties to join the government.
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