{"id":316863,"date":"2019-11-18T07:29:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T07:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316863"},"modified":"2019-11-18T07:29:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T07:29:25","slug":"sharad-pawar-to-meet-sonia-gandhi-to-discuss-maharashtra-government-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sharad-pawar-to-meet-sonia-gandhi-to-discuss-maharashtra-government-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharad Pawar to meet Sonia Gandhi to discuss Maharashtra government formation"},"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-310336 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/sharad-pawar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sharad-pawar.jpg 622w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/sharad-pawar-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/>Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar arrived in Delhi on Monday to hold a meeting with Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi to discuss the political situation 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;\">According to the sources, the two leaders will meet at 4 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On November 12, Maharashtra came under President&#8217;s after all the parties failed to form a government in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP, the single largest party, could not stake claim to form a government as its ally Shiv Sena remained firm over sharing of the chief minister\u2019s post since the assembly election results were announced on October 24.<\/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 had emerged as the\u00a0single-largest party with 105 seats\u00a0in the 288-member Assembly. The Shiv Sena at 56, the NCP 54 and the Congress won 44 seats.<\/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 was invited by governor to form the government in state, but the party refused to stake claim, its ally Shiv Sena also failed Governor\u2019s deadline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Governor had then invited Sharad Pawar\u2019s NCP, the third largest party to prove the support of required MLAs needed to form the government, failing which the President&#8217;s Rule was imposed in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar arrived in Delhi on Monday to hold a meeting with Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi to discuss the political situation in Maharashtra. According to the sources, the two leaders will meet at 4 pm. On November 12, Maharashtra came under President&#8217;s after all the parties failed to form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[236,1467,1890,1892,1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316863"}],"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=316863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316864,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316863\/revisions\/316864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}