Cong-NCP-Sena to parade 162 MLAs at 7 pm

November 25, 2019 17:26

Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut announces in a tweet that the three allies -- Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena will parade their 162 MLAs at Mumbai's Grand Hyatt hotel at 7 pm today.

Parties can only parade their MLAs before the state's governor and so seek to stake claim to form government. By parading the 162 MLAs at a hotel before the media, Raut's announcement is only a show of strength.

This morning, senior leader Eknath Shinde said that the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress have the required numbers and added that they have given the letter, where 162 MLAs have pledged support to their alliance to Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.

The three parties submitted the letter to the officials at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai. "We have signatures of 162 MLAs and we have proven that we can form the government. The current government which is formed overnight should not be given acceptance as they don't have the numbers. We demand the resignation of Chief Minister Fadnavis as they don't have numbers," said Shinde.

Echoing similar sentiments, NCP leader Jayant Patil earlier today had asserted that a government has been formed in the state but the concerned political parties do not have adequate numbers.

Image: NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray at the joint presser on Saturday.

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