#WeAre162 : I will bring more than 162 MLAs. This is not Goa or Manipur, this is Maharashtra – Sharad Pawar

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At a massive show of strength MLAs of the Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party and Congress claimed the support of over 162 MLAs as they gathered at a five-star hotel in Mumbai on Monday evening ahead of the Supreme Court’s order on government formation in the state.

“We are here together for people of Maharashtra. A government was formed in the state without a majority. Karnataka, Goa and Manipur, BJP didn’t have a majority anywhere but formed the government,” NCP chief Sharad Pawar addressed the gathering the MLAs of the three parties assembled at the hotel Grand Hyatt.

Pawar expressed confidence that in the floor-test in the Legislative Assembly the alliance will have the support of more than 162 MLAs and that it will form the government and will work in the interest of people.

“There will not be any problem in proving our majority. The one who is suspended from the party cannot give any orders. On the day of the floor test, I will bring more than 162 MLAs. This is not Goa or Manipur , this is Maharashtra,” a combative Pawar said.

“We are here together for people of Maharashtra. A government was formed in the state without a majority. Karnataka, Goa, and Manipur, BJP didn’t have majority anywhere but formed a government,” said Pawar.

Slamming his nephew Ajit Pawar for breaking away from the NCP to ally with the BJP to form the government, the NCP chief said: “Without a majority, they have installed the government. For the first time in history, the government is installed like this. Ajit Pawar didn’t have the authority to make decisions and he made his own decision.”

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said: “Our fight is not just for power, our fight is for ‘Satyamev Jayate.’ The more you try to break us, the more we will unite.”

The assembled MLAs also took a pledge to not “do anything which will benefit BJP.”

“I swear that under the leadership of Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray & Sonia Gandhi, I will be honest to my party. I won’t get lured by anything. I will not do anything which will benefit BJP” they pledged.

Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Ashok Chavan were present at the meet.