{"id":316428,"date":"2019-11-06T07:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T07:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316428"},"modified":"2019-11-06T07:16:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T07:16:24","slug":"amid-political-tussle-in-maharashtra-shiv-sena-leader-sanjay-raut-meets-ncp-chief-sharad-pawar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/amid-political-tussle-in-maharashtra-shiv-sena-leader-sanjay-raut-meets-ncp-chief-sharad-pawar\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid political tussle in Maharashtra: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut meets NCP chief Sharad Pawar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316470 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/sanjay-sharad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/sanjay-sharad.jpg 596w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/sanjay-sharad-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/>Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday held a meeting with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar at the latter\u2019s residence in\u00a0Mumbai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Raut termed the meeting a &#8220;courtesy visit&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the second meeting between Sanjay Raut and Sharad Pawar in one week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After attending the meeting Raut told reporters that \u201cHe (Sharad Pawar) is a senior leader of the state and the country. He is worried about the political situation in Maharashtra today. We had a brief discussion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP and the Shiv Sena have been locked in a bitter tussle over sharing of the chief minister&#8217;s post since the assembly election results were announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The NCP on Tuesday said that it was ready to give a political alternative in the state if the Shiv Sena decided to snapped ties with the BJP, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The meeting between the Sena and the NCP also coincided with developments in Delhi where senior Congress leader Ahmad Patel met Union Minister Nitin Gadkari at the latter\u2019s residence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, Patel denied that the meeting between the two was political in nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ahmed Patel also put up his statement on Twitter regarding his meeting with Nitin Gadkari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMet Shri Nitin Gadkari to submit various representations &#8211; for my constitutency and Gujarat state- on underpass construction at Bharuch district, compensation for farmers near the expressway project &amp; relief for MSMEs,\u201d Patel tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday held a meeting with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar at the latter\u2019s residence in\u00a0Mumbai. Raut termed the meeting a &#8220;courtesy visit&#8221;. This is the second meeting between Sanjay Raut and Sharad Pawar in one week. After attending the meeting Raut told reporters that \u201cHe (Sharad Pawar) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[1467,11951,1892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316472,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316428\/revisions\/316472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}