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Shiv Sena, BJP yet to narrow differences

Senior Shiv Sena leader Vinayak Raut said his party may not attend the ceremony since it was being humiliated

The tough posturing by Shiv Sena came hours after BJP said no minister from the party was likely to be inducted on Friday. Photo: PTIPremium
The tough posturing by Shiv Sena came hours after BJP said no minister from the party was likely to be inducted on Friday. Photo: PTI

Mumbai: With just hours left for the swearing-in of the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief minister of Maharashtra, there was no clarity whether it will join hands with its estranged alliance partner Shiv Sena.

While the Sena has insisted on ministerial berths, the BJP is firm that it would happen only in a cabinet expansion.

The BJP, with 123 legislators, needs support from 22 more for a majority in the assembly. It claims to have the support of seven independent legislators and five from smaller parties. Besides, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has offered its unsolicited support to the BJP.

Sena mouthpiece Saamana called BJP’s plan to form a minority government unconstitutional and termed the move to depend on NCP’s support as immoral. After a comment by BJP general secretary Rajiv Pratap Rudy that no Sena minister may take oath on Friday, senior Sena leader Vinayak Raut said his party may not attend the ceremony since it was being humiliated. Senior Sena leader and legislator Diwakar Raote said party chief Uddhav Thackeray will decide on the next step.

Former state BJP chief Sudhir Mungantiwar, however, said chief minister-designate Devendra Fadanvis had invited Thackeray to attend the ceremony, and that the latter had accepted the invitation.

Prakash Akolkar, political editor of Marathi newspaper Sakal, said, “The party which gets highest seats irrespective of whether it gets majority or not has got mandate to form government and second-largest party a mandate to sit in opposition. So Sena should accept and sit in opposition rather than showing its desperation for power."

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Published: 30 Oct 2014, 11:34 AM IST
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