In a latest development, rebel Shiv Sena MLAs Deepak Kesarkar and Ashish Jaiswal have left Guwahati's Radisson Blu Hotel where Eknath Shinde and the other dissidents have camped, reports said.
Mumbai, June 23 (PTI): The Shiv Sena is open to consider quitting Maharashtra’s ruling MVA alliance if the rebel MLAs camping in Assam return to Mumbai within 24 hours and discuss their grievances with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, party MP Sanjay Raut said on Thursday, indicating a big shift in stand that surprised ally Congress, while the NCP said it wants the coalition government to complete its term. Reaching out to rebel MLAs, Raut, who is the Shiv Sena’s chief spokesperson, said the party’s “doors are open” to them, and all issues raised by them can be resolved through talks. As political crisis in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, triggered by Shiv Sena cabinet minister Eknath Shinde’s revolt three days ago, raged three more MLAs of the party left for Guwahati in the BJP-ruled Assam to join the rebel camp. A day after Thackeray made an emotional appeal to rebel MLAs of his party and offered to resign in a bid to placate them, his trus
Shiv Sena MLC Ravindra Phatak, who was part of a two-member delegation sent to Surat by Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday to hold discussions with Eknath Shinde and other rebel Sena MLAs at a hotel in Surat to find a solution to the political crisis, has on Wednesday evening joined them in Guwahati's Radisson Blu Hotel.