Aaditya, Uddhav, Raut Hold Late-Night Meeting At Sharad Pawar's Residence

Thackeray was accompanied by his son Aaditya and party MP Sanjay Raut, at Pawar's residence where his daughter Supriya Sule and nephew Ajit Pawar were present

Aditya, Uddhav, Raut Hold Late-Night Meeting At Sharad Pawar's Home/ Photo: PTI

Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar had a late-night meeting with Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray. The crucial meeting, took place at Sharad Pawar's residence Silver Oak in South Mumbai where Thackeray was accompanied by his son Aaditya and party MP Sanjay Raut. A recent update states that the three parties have arrived at a consensus over Sena holding the chief minister’s post for the full five-year term, with two deputy chief ministers each from NCP and Congress. Inching towards forming the Maharashtra government, the three parties alliance - likely to be christened 'Maha Vikas Aghadi', will be formally announced and they would soon stake the claim to form the government before Governor B. S. Koshyari, today. After emerging from the meeting none spoke but Thackeray smiled and Raut gave the 'thumbs up' sign, indicating all was on the right track. It is learnt that Pawar briefed them on all the Political development in New Delhi in the past five days, the power-sharing formula, the post of CM, Dy. CM, ministries, etc, among the three prospective partners - Sena-NCP-Congress. Later, on Friday a key meeting of top Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders was conducted in the national capital to discuss contours of the alliance with Shiv Sena. Speaking to ABP News, Sena leader Sanjay Raut had said that chief minister of Maharashtra will be from his party and also claimed that the government will be formed before December. He also said that it is most likely we would go to Raj Bhawan to stake claim to form the government on Satuday. "Maharashtra is most likely to get a government on Saturday, Raut said denying the reports of rotational CM agreement will NCP and Congress. According to sources, distribution of ministries would be done with a calculation of one minister for every four MLAs. This means, Shiv Sena which has 56 MLAs will get 14 ministries, NCP which has 54 MLAs will get 14 ministries and Congress which has 44 MLAs will get 11 ministries. Remaining 3 ministries will be equally divided amongst the three alliance partners.