All eyes on final meet in Delhi

All eyes on final meet in Delhi

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The deliberation on Maharashtra government formation is on the last leg with the Congress, the NCP and the Shiv Sena arriving on consensus on the Common Minimum Program (CMP) but all eyes are on the final meet of Sharad Pawar with Sonia Gandhi. Sources say that Pawar is likely to be accompanied by Uddhav Thackeray to meet Sonia.

The meeting is likely to happen on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Sharad Pawar is scheduled to meet Congress emissaries named by Sonia Gandhi on Monday in New Delhi. The three leaders - Ahmed Patel, Mallikarjun Kharge and KC Venugopal will sit with Pawar to fine-tune the power-sharing agreement and the CMP between the three parties before the final deal is put to Sonia Gandhi said sources.

The agreement is in the final stage, said a source. A senior leader from the state said, “we are not in a hurry as these types of alliances take time to formulate as the ideology was a major hiccup which is being resolved”.

Meanwhile, the Shiv Sena took a swipe at BJP and said Chhatrapati Shivaji was not “confined to any caste or party” but belongs to all 11 crore people of Maharashtra. 

The BJP had mounted a campaign seen by political observers as an effort to appropriate the legacy of the legendary warrior-king in a bid to upstage the Sena. 

Sena MP Sanjay Raut, writing in his weekly column in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, said, “The BJP has been campaigning that it is the only party blessed by Shivaji Maharaj. Despite that, BJP’s Udayanraje Bhosale lost the Satara Lok Sabha bypoll.” 

FADNAVIS HECKLED
Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was on Sunday heckled by some Shiv Sena workers as he left Shivaji Park in Mumbai after paying tribute to Bal Thackeray on his ninth death anniversary. Some Sena workers standing close to Fadnavis’s convoy shouted in Marathi Fadnavis’ campaign slogan: : ‘I will be back (as CM)’. He did not react.

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