BJP president Amit Shah might meet Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on October 30 after visiting a gathering of the BJP’s recently elected MLAs to select the leader of the House in Mumbai.
Shah’s conference with Thackeray, if it occurs, allows large political consequence given the Sena’s desire for equal partition of power in the next government in imitation of the senior ally’s weakened tally.
According to sources, Sena’s equal distribution of power causes chief ministership for Thackeray’s son Aaditya Thackeray, a first-time MLA.
“A conference of the BJP legislative party will take place in Mumbai on October 30. Our national president Amit Shah and leader Saroj Pandey will also be present at the meeting,” BJP MLC Girish Vyas said. “After the meeting, Shah may visit Uddhav Thackeray.”
Thackeray had made it obvious that his party would not know the obstacles of the BJP every time.
When results of the elections were being declared on October 24, Thackeray had prompted the BJP of the 50:50 formula accepted upon” between himself, Shah and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
“I cannot support the BJP every time. I want to mention the BJP about the method which was worked out in the presence of Amit Shah,” Thackeray had said.
On Saturday, the Sena asked a composed promise from the BJP that it will achieve the formula for equal sharing of power. Thackeray had told MLAs of his party that though “other options” were open for him, he didn’t want to examine them given that the support of the BJP and the Sena is connected by the “Hindutva beliefs.”
Shiv Sena has achieved 56 seats, where seven less than in 2014, in the 288-member House. The Sena has more support now as the BJP, whose poll got down from 122 in 2014 to 105, requires it more to traverse the midway mark of 144.
