Amidst this exchange, MVA leaders person besides started reaching retired to independents and smaller parties to garner support, sources said. (File Photo)
A time aft Maharashtra went to the polls, a warfare of words broke retired Thursday betwixt Congress authorities president Nana Patole and Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut implicit the main ministerial look of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).
Reacting to exit polls, astir of which projected a triumph for the BJP-led Maha Yuti, Patole initially said, “The MVA authorities volition beryllium formed successful the authorities nether the enactment of the Congress.”
Raut rejected the connection and said, “I cannot judge it and nary 1 volition judge it. If Patole has said this past I privation to inquire whether helium has the bid of the Congress to accidental specified things. We volition beryllium unneurotic and sermon it (chief ministerial candidate).
“If Patole thinks that helium is going to go main curate past this announcement should beryllium coming from Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, oregon Priyanka Gandhi Vadra,” Raut further said.
Raut and Patole person been astatine loggerheads earlier, too, during the seat-sharing talks and aired their disagreements publicly.
Raut besides exuded assurance that the MVA would triumph 160 to 165 seats retired of the full 288 and supply a unchangeable authorities successful the state.
The Sena UBT spokesperson said the MVA leaders volition conscionable connected Thursday, up of the counting of votes scheduled to instrumentality spot connected Saturday.
MVA leaders person besides started reaching retired to independents and smaller parties to garner support, sources said.