Maharashtra government is still on notice period: Shiv Sena

March 08, 2017 22:17

On a day the BJP helped Shiv Sena install its Mayor in the BMC, the Uddhav Thackeray-led party said that the BJP government in Maharashtra was still on "notice period".

"Yes... This (the BJP-led NDA) government is still on the notice period. Unless our chief (Thackeray) clarifies, the government will continue to be on notice," Sena spokesperson Neelam Gorhe said.

She was speaking to reporters on the campus of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in South Mumbai after the mayoral election.

Interestingly, Gorhe's remarks came days after Sena minister Ramdas Kadam said the party ministers had put away the resignation letters they were carrying in their pockets.

Sena's Vishwanath Mahadeshwar was today elected as the Mayor of the country's richest civic body, with the BJP corporators voting in his favour.

He bagged 171 votes against the 31 won by his Congress rival Vitthal Lokare.

The decks for his election were cleared recently after the BJP, locked in a battle with the Sena to reach the magic figure of 114 votes to rule the 227-member BMC, decided to hand a virtual walkover to the warring ally.

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