Maharashtra Politics: Sharad Pawar to meet Sonia Gandhi tomorrow

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State News

Nov 17, 2019

9:40PM

Maharashtra Politics: Sharad Pawar to meet Sonia Gandhi tomorrow

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NCP President Sharad Pawar will meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other senior Congress leaders in New Delhi tomorrow. The leaders are expected to discuss various possibilities of government formation in Maharashtra.

Sharad Pawar held a meeting with senior leaders of his party at his residence in Pune this evening. The leaders unanimously expressed that the President's Rule should end in Maharashtra and an alternate government should be formed. Senior leaders of Nationalist Congress Party core committee, including Ajit Pawar, Chagan Bhujbal, Jayant Patil were present at the meeting.

Speaking to reporters, party spokesperson Nawab Malik said the next decision will be taken only after discussion with the Congress. Meanwhile, Shiv Sena is confident that the next Chief Minister in the state would be from the party. Party leader Sanjay Raut asserted that the government that is going to be formed in Maharashtra will undoubtedly be under the leadership of a Chief Minister of Shiv Sena.