Fadnavis offers Narayan Rane to join NDA; he seeks 2 days time

October 03, 2017 21:24

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has invited Narayan Rane to join the National Democratic Alliance government. It is learnt that the former Congress man has sought two days time to respond.

Days after quitting the Congress, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane launched a new party called 'Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksh'.

At the time of the launch, Rane, who served as the chief minister in 1999 when he was in the Shiv Sena, hinted that his outfit might be veering towards the BJP camp.

Asked if he aspires to become the chief minister, he said, "I still have an ambition to become the chief minister of Maharashtra. It never dies. I will wait for the right time to come."

He said he or his new party will never oppose any development work, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious bullet train project.

The BJP's saffron ally Shiv Sena has been critical of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project. The criticism has become increasingly strident following the stampede on the narrow foot overbridge linking Parel and Elphinstone Road stations that claimed 23 lives recently.

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