Resort politics takes centrestage in Maharashtra

November 24, 2019 10:15

Resort politics has taken center stage as Congress shifted its MLAs to the JW Marriott Hotel in Andheri, Mumbai to prevent possibilities of poaching by the BJP or Ajit Pawar's faction of the NCP.

Meanwhile, the NCP MLAs are all being kept at the Renaissance Hotel in Mumbai's Powai area. The Sena MLAs are holed up at the Lalit Hotel near the airport.

MLAs of the ally Congress are likely to fly to Jaipur on Sunday to ward off any poaching bid. "We may go to Jaipur tomorrow. We will be there until the special session of the state Legislative Assembly is convened for newly-elected MLAs to take oath, election of Speaker and trust vote," Congress MLA Nana Patole said.

In the 288-member Assembly, the BJP has 105 MLAs, the Sena 56 and the Congress 44.

Patole said all the MLAs of the Congress are together and won't split.

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