Aaditya Thackeray In Delhi To Invite Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh For Father's Oath Ceremony

Aaditya Thackeray on Wednesday night flown to Delhi and reached the residence of Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi to invite her for his father's oath taking ceremony which will take place in Mumbai on Thursday.

Aaditya left from Mumbai for Delhi in the evening to personally invite Sonia Gandhi. (Image: Congress/ Twitter)

New Delhi: A day ahead of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray's swearing-in as the Maharashtra Chief Minister, his son and first-time MLA Aaditya Thackeray on Wednesday night flown to Delhi and reached the residence of Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi to invite her for his father's oath taking ceremony which will take place in Mumbai on Thursday. "Aaditya left from Mumbai for Delhi in the evening to personally invite Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for the swearing-in ceremony," a Sena leader told news agency IANS. The party leader said that after arriving in the national capital, he directly reached the residence of the Congress interim chief at 10 Janpath around 9.30 pm to invite her and former party President Rahul Gandhi for the ceremony being organised at Shivaji Park in Mumbai on Thursday evening. The junior Thackeray also went to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence to invite him. In a show of strength, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), comprising the Congress, the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), has invited the Gandhis, all Congress Chief Ministers, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerji, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, and DMK chief M.K. Stalin for the swearing-in ceremony.

Former PM Dr. Manmohan Singh met with Aaditya Thackeray. pic.twitter.com/rUNYEr2j4o

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However, news agency ANI has reported that Delhi CM will not attend the swearing-in Ceremony of Uddhav Thackeray as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra tomorrow, due to his private engagements. MVA leader Uddhav Thackeray will be the first from the Thackeray family to become Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Sena has forged an alliance with the Congress and the NCP in the state after breaking away from its 30-year-old alliance partner BJP in the state. The path for Uddhav Thackeray was cleared after Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Devendra Fadnavis resigned from the CM post on Tuesday, four days after he took oath along with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar's nephew Ajit Pawar as his deputy. According to the power-sharing agreement between the three parties, the Sena and the NCP will have 15 ministers each and the Congress 12 in the ministry apart from the Speaker's post. In the October 21 assembly elections, the BJP had won 105 seats in the 288-member house, while the Shiv Sena bagged 56 seats. The Congress and the NCP had won 44 and 54 seats, respectively.