{"id":316959,"date":"2019-11-22T05:44:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316959"},"modified":"2019-11-22T05:44:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:44:48","slug":"maharashtra-government-formation-shiv-sena-chief-minister-for-full-five-years-says-sanjay-raut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-government-formation-shiv-sena-chief-minister-for-full-five-years-says-sanjay-raut\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra government formation: Shiv Sena Chief Minister for full five years, says Sanjay Raut"},"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-300534 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sanjay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sanjay.jpg 626w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sanjay-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/sanjay-532x420.jpg 532w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/>Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said that Maharashtra will have a Shiv Sena Chief Minister for a full term of five years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While speaking to reporters, Raut said that his party will get the Chief Minister&#8217;s post for a full five-year term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The time for offers has ended,&#8221; Raut said in response to a question on reports that BJP had agreed to share the Chief Minister&#8217;s post with Sena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cShiv Sena will not side with the BJP, even if offered &#8216;Lord Indra&#8217;s throne&#8217;, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, &#8220;People of Maharashtra want Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray to become the Chief Minister.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Asked if the Sena, Congress and NCP would meet the state governor, Raut said, &#8220;Why meet the\u00a0governor when the President&#8217;s rule is in place&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP and Sena, which fought the assembly elections in Maharashtra together, fell out over the chief minister\u2019s post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On November 12, Maharashtra came under President\u2019s rule after all the parties failed to form a government in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"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=\"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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said that Maharashtra will have a Shiv Sena Chief Minister for a full term of five years.\u00a0 While speaking to reporters, Raut said that his party will get the Chief Minister&#8217;s post for a full five-year term. &#8220;The time for offers has ended,&#8221; Raut said in response to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":300534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[236,1467,1890,11951,513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316959"}],"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=316959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316960,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316959\/revisions\/316960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}