After suffering two jolts in quick succession at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- in the Rajya Sabha polls and the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls -- Maharashtra’s Maha Vikas Aghadi government seems to be entering an uncertain zone. Following Monday’s council poll results, Shiv Sena Minister Eknath Shinde along with over a dozen party MLAs has reportedly decamped to Surat in Gujarat.
The situation has prompted senior leaders of the Shiv Sena, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) , to call separate meetings of their MLAs. Sena chief and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray also held a meeting of the party’s MLAs and senior leaders. NCP chief Sharad Pawar also cancelled his programmes in Delhi to return to Mumbai.
Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil has said his party has nothing to do with the current political developments.
