Panaji, June 30
Rebel Shiv Sena MLAs led by senior leader Eknath Shinde, who is currently camping in Goa, will hold a meeting on Thursday to decide the way forward as the BJP seeks to form the next government in Maharashtra after Uddhav Thackeray’s resignation. likely to support. as Chief Minister.
A chartered flight carrying the separated MLAs landed at Goa’s Dabolim airport from Guwahati on Wednesday night. They are staying in a luxury hotel in Dona Paula.
“We will hold a meeting on Thursday to decide our future course of action,” the rebel group’s spokesman Deepak Kesarkar told a television channel.
He said Shinde would take a decision after talks.
Kesarkar said a decision is yet to be taken on when to leave for Mumbai from Goa.
“Whether to go on Thursday or Friday, it is not yet decided,” he said.
When asked about the Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday in which it refused to stay Maharashtra Governor BS Koshyari’s direction to the Uddhav Thackeray-led government to hold a floor test in the assembly, Kesarkar said there was no need to be happy in it. It doesn’t matter because NCP and Congress made Shiv Sena people fight among themselves.
“We had tried to avert it (the uprising)… but it could not be avoided,” he said.
Reacting to Thackeray’s resignation, Kesarkar said Shiv Sena MLAs had urged him to walk out of Maha Vikas Aghadi on Wednesday as well, but he preferred to approach the Supreme Court.