{"id":316963,"date":"2019-11-22T09:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316963"},"modified":"2019-11-22T09:37:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:37:05","slug":"maharashtra-congress-ncp-leaders-meet-in-mumbai-to-finalise-government-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-congress-ncp-leaders-meet-in-mumbai-to-finalise-government-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra: Congress-NCP leaders meet in Mumbai to finalise government formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-congress-ncp-leaders-meet-in-mumbai-to-finalise-government-formation\/congress-ncp-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-316965\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-316965 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/congress-NCP-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/congress-NCP-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/congress-NCP-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/congress-NCP-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/congress-NCP-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/congress-NCP-1-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/congress-NCP-1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/congress-NCP-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a>Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders met in Mumbai on Friday to finalise the government formation with Shiv Sena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Shiv Sena also held a meeting with its 56 MLAs in Matoshree, where all MLAs demanded Uddhav Thackeray to take over as next Maharashtra Chief Minister. Uddhav apprised the legislators of the government formation process and told them that the formation of Sena-led government is in the final stages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Congress leader Manikrao Thakre told reporters that, It is almost final that the next Maharashtra Chief Minister will be from Shiv Sena as NCP has never demanded the position of Chief Minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Earlier in the day Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut 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-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">While speaking to reporters, Raut said that his party will get the Chief Minister\u2019s post for a full five-year term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cThe time for offers has ended,\u201d Raut said in response to a question on reports that BJP had agreed to share the Chief Minister\u2019s post with Sena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cShiv Sena will not side with the BJP, even if offered \u2018Lord Indra\u2019s throne\u2019, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He further said, \u201cPeople of Maharashtra want Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray to become the Chief Minister.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">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-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders met in Mumbai on Friday to finalise the government formation with Shiv Sena. Shiv Sena also held a meeting with its 56 MLAs in Matoshree, where all MLAs demanded Uddhav Thackeray to take over as next Maharashtra Chief Minister. Uddhav apprised the legislators of the government formation process and told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":316965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[236,1467,1890,513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316963"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316967,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316963\/revisions\/316967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}