Mumbai sources stated that a new government in maharashtra should be in place before december and a final decision on it will be taken in a day or two, shiv sena leader sanjay raut said on thursday, amid parleys between his party and the congress-ncp combine. Meanwhile Raut said he will meet ncp president sharad pawar on Thursday. Apparently to further discuss the modalities of government formation, he said another round of meeting among the three parties will be held in Mumbai.
Further he also told reporters that there are no plans of any meeting between congress president sonia gandhi and shiv sena chief uddhav thackeray this week. Raut said "In the interest of the state and its people, we want to run the government and that too for five years." Perhaps after a marathon meeting on wednesday, the congress and the ncp leaders said they have in-principle agreed to form an alliance in maharashtra and a give a "stable" state government. Reportedly the shiv sena still remains tight-lipped on who will be the chief minister from it.
Moreover Raut said "On NCP's demand that the chief minister's post has to be on a rotational basis, Raut said he "did not" have any information on that. He also said shiv sena founder bal thackeray had publicly advocated that oath swore on religious books in courts should be stopped and replaced by the Constitution. He added "So don't teach us the meaning of the word secular".
