Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar on Wednesday asked the BJP and Shiv Sena to frame government in Maharashtra soon, and said his party will function as a responsible opposition.
After his meeting here in the morning with senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut, Sharad Pawar told journalists that he was not keen on being the chief minister of the state again.
"The BJP and Shiv Sena should form the government soon. We will function as a responsible opposition," he said.
He reiterated this his party and the Congress have got the mandate to be a "responsible opposition".
"I have been the chief minister 4 times and am not keen on that post again," Sharad Pawar said.
To a question, the Maratha strongman said he had no clue about the decision taken by the Congress on the political situation in Maharashtra.
Asked regarding the meeting of senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel and Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari in Delhi on Wednesday, Sharad Pawar said, "It must be regarding some road work".
There has been no headway in government formation once results of the stateassembly polls were declared on October 24.
The BJP, which won 105 seats, and the Sena, won 56 seats, are locked in a bitter tussle over sharing of the chief minister's post and ministerial portfolios in new government, even 13 days after the Assembly poll verdict handed them enough seats to cobble up a alliance government.
They won 161 seats together in the 288-member House, much above the midway mark of 145.
Besides, the opposition NCP won fifty four seats while the Congress got fourt four seats.
