BJP's Devendra Fadnavis meet RSS chief Bhagwat

Lucknow: Ahead of the tussle in Maharashtra between BJP and Shiv Sena, the Saffron party's Devendra Fadnavis met RSS chief Bhagwat on Tuesday.

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Both the personalities held the meeting in a quite private manner behind the closed door at headquarters of RSS for approximately an hour.

The meeting bears significance with the tenure of the incumbent Assembly ends on November 8.

BJP and Shiv Sena are engaged in a bitter tug-of-war with the latter refusing to soften stand on its demands for equal sharing of Cabinet portfolios and the chief minster's tenure of 2.5 years.

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However, Fadnavis has said that Shiv Sena was not promised the chief ministerial post for two-and-a-half years when the alliance was sealed before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Tuesday said that Shiv Sena is yet to give any proposal and that BJP's doors are "always open" for them.

Leaders in Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have also confirmed that the two parties are trying to chalk out an alternative to keep the BJP out of power in the state.

The Saffron party came out as the only largest party by bagging 105 seats and its ally, Shiv Sena, managed to win 56 in the 288 member state assembly.

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