Canards suggesting Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde would soon resign were being deliberately planted, said the Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction on July 6, while stressing that Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar’s induction would only increase the strength of the ruling Shinde Sena- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government.
Speaking in Mumbai, Maharashtra Industries Minister and Shinde camp MLA Uday Samant said that malicious rumours were being planted suggesting that CM Shinde would soon resign, while stressing care would be taken in the future to ensure there would be no feuds within the three parties (Eknath Shinde’s Sena faction, Devendra Fadnavis’ BJP and Ajit Pawar’s NCP group) now running the ‘Mahayuti’ government.
“This negativity is deliberately being created…The Shinde camp MLAs are not upset on Ajit Pawar’s NCP faction joining the ruling BJP-Shinde Sena government,” said Mr. Samant, a four-term legislator from Ratnagiri district in the State’s Konkan belt.
