Have 162 signatures of support: NCP's Patil

November 25, 2019 13:10

Nationalist Congress Party leader Jayant Patil along with Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan and others visited Raj Bhawan on Monday and said that they have given a letter showing the strength of 162 MLAs to the Governor.

"Today morning at 10 am, Shindeji, Thoratji (Maharashtra Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat), Chavanji, Vinayak Rautji (Shivsena), Azmiji, KC Padvi (Congress) and I - on behalf of NCP, gave a letter to Governor showing the strength of 162 MLAs. We are in a position to bring 162 MLAs before Maharashtra Governor at any given time," said Patil while leaving from Raj Bhavan.

"We told the Governor that BJP doesn't have numbers. Even today they don't have the numbers and therefore the three parties (Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP) along with our allies want to stake claim to form a government and we did it today. We have 162 numbers which is more than the magic figure of 144," he added.

Patil further stated that the trio political parties are hoping that the Governor will accept and respect the mandate and ensure NCP, Congress and Shiv Sena form the government in Maharashtra. "We have seven independent MLAs with us apart from our original numbers of 56, 44 and 51," Patil added.

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