Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that no state in India has gotten as much time as Maharashtra for government formation.
Amit Shah also hit out at the Shiv Sena for the collapse of the alliance between the BJP and the Sena. Shah said the BJP had always said Devendra Fadnavis would be CM in Maharashtra and that Sena was coming up with new demands that are unacceptable.
Shah said, “Before elections, the Prime Minister and I said many times in public that if our alliance wins then Devendra Fadnavis will be the CM, no one objected back then. Now they have come up with new demands which are not acceptable to us.”
Speaking about the imposition of President’s Rule in Maharashtra, Shah said, “Before this, in no state was so much time given… 18 days were given. Governor invited parties only after assembly tenure ended. Neither Shiv Sena nor Congress-NCP staked claim and neither we. Even if today any party has numbers it can approach the Governor.”
Prasanta Patnaik