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Senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has once again took a dig at the BJP as he reportedly claimed that his party has the support of 170 MLAs and is capable of forming the government.
Raut also said that his party will talk to the Bharatiya Janata Party only on the issue of the chief minister’s post.
“We have more than 170 MLAs supporting us, the figure can even reach 175,” said while addressing a press conference in Mumbai.
The BJP and Shiv Sena, which contested the October 21 state elections together, have been locked in a bitter tussle over sharing of the chief minister’s post and are yet to start formal talks over government formation.
“The impasse continues. There is no discussion on government formation as yet. If talks happen, it will only be on the issue of the chief minister’s post,” Raut told reporters.
The Rajya Sabha member further that Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray was in Aurangabad on Sunday to take stock of the crop losses in that district due to unseasonal rains last month.
Earlier, in his weekly column in Sena mouthpiece Saamana, Raut likened the impasse over government formation to a ‘chariot stuck in the mud of arrogance’.
He dared the BJP to impose President’s rule in the state, saying such a step would be the party’s ‘biggest defeat of the century’.
