{"id":316584,"date":"2019-11-11T09:28:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T09:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316584"},"modified":"2019-11-11T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T09:28:17","slug":"maharashtra-turmoil-deadline-7-30-pm-uddhav-thackeray-sharad-pawar-meeting-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-turmoil-deadline-7-30-pm-uddhav-thackeray-sharad-pawar-meeting-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra turmoil: Deadline 7.30 pm; Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar meeting ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; 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-316585 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/maharashtra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/maharashtra.jpg 590w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/maharashtra-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/>The meeting between Shiv Sena chief\u00a0Uddhav Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar in Mumbai has ended. The duo met to discuss getting together to form government in Maharashtra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The meeting took place after Shiv Sena&#8217;s minister in PM Modi&#8217;s cabinet, Arvind Sawant, resigned from his post amid tussle with BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sawant earlier in his tweet said, \u201cBJP has taken a lot of strides in Maharashtra in the pursuit of falsehood .. Shiv Sena\u2019s side is the truth. Why stay in Delhi government in such a false environment? And that is why I am resigning as the Union Minister.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari yesterday invited the second-largest party, the Shiv Sena to indicate willingness to form the government after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bowed out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP blamed the Sena for insulting the public\u2019s mandate and wished it best to form a government with the support of Congress and NCP.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Shiv Sena has time till 7.30pm today to stake claim to power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress, after a meeting of its core committee, said that a final call on extending support to the Sena would be taken after another meeting with state Congress leaders at 4 pm today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Friday, Devendra Fadnavis resigned from the chief minister\u2019s post, During the press briefing, he said there was no agreement between Sena and BJP on a seat-sharing agreement ahead of the Assembly polls in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting between Shiv Sena chief\u00a0Uddhav Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar in Mumbai has ended. The duo met to discuss getting together to form government in Maharashtra. The meeting took place after Shiv Sena&#8217;s minister in PM Modi&#8217;s cabinet, Arvind Sawant, resigned from his post amid tussle with BJP. Sawant earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316584"}],"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=316584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316587,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316584\/revisions\/316587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}