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Maharashtra heading for non-BJP government as NCP-Congress strike deal
The contours of a non- BJP government in Maharashtra emerged on Thursday, with the Congress and the NCP reaching "complete unanimity" on the exercise and announcing they will hold talks with the Shiv Sena to finalise the "architecture" of the alliance.
New Delhi/ Mumbai : The contours of a non- BJP government in Maharashtra emerged on Thursday, with the Congress and the NCP reaching "complete unanimity" on the exercise and announcing they will hold talks with the Shiv Sena to finalise the "architecture" of the alliance.
Inching closer to form a government along with the Shiv Sena, the Congress and NCP will hold talks with pre-poll allies Peasants Workers Party, Samajwadi Party, Swabhimani Paksh and CPI(M) in Mumbai on Friday before parleys with the Sena, a Congress leader said.
For the better part of this week, the national capital was the centre of marathon meetings between top leaders of the NCP and Congress to explore the possibility of forging an alliance with the Shiv Sena, a party whose ideology is poles apart from the duo.
"The NCP and the Congress have completed discussions on all issues. There is complete unanimity between the two parties on all the issues," former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan told reporters.
A decision will be taken on Friday on what the architecture of the alliance will be, Chavan said. The final decision will be announced in Mumbai, he added.
The announcement of the Common Minimum Programme will clarify details of the new government, Chavan said. Results of the October 21 Assembly polls were declared on October 24 and President's rule was imposed in the state on November 12 after no party or combine staked claim to form the new government.
Chavan said that only after all issues are discussed and cleared by the three parties, will the alliance move towards staking claim to form the government.
The Congress Working Committee (CWC) after a detailed deliberation on the political situation in Maharashtra gave its approval to join hands with the Sena in the state, party sources told PTI.
The CWC, the party's highest decision-making body, gave the nod during a meeting held to deliberate on the Maharashtra political scenario.
The meeting was chaired by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and was held at her 10, Janpath residence, the sources said.
