The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had made rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde the Chief Minister of Maharashtra merely to wrest Mumbai from the Sena, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut said on Saturday.
He further claimed that like other Sena MLAs, he too had received an offer to join the Shinde camp in Guwahati, but had refused to side with them.
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