BJP in a bind in Maharashtra as Shinde insists on being handled like Nitish

Caretaker chief minister Eknath Shinde’s sudden departure for his village in Satara on Friday set the cat among the many pigeons in Maharashtra’s political circles.

Shinde was sad on the BJP’s insistence that the brand new chief minister can be from its ranks because it has emerged as the one largest get together within the state meeting with 132 seats within the 288-member Home, recommended some stories. Each time he leaves for his village, he normally returns to make main bulletins, mentioned his get together colleague Sanjay Shirsat on Friday.

On Saturday, Shirsat was much more specific and declared that the Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena ought to get the house portfolio even when the chief minister is from the BJP. The portfolio has been held by earlier deputy chief ministers too, he identified.

Shirsat actually seems to have the blessings of the get together chief who, reported the New Indian Categorical, had conveyed to Union residence minister Amit Shah that the finance, residence and housing improvement departments needs to be left to him if he’s changed as chief minister.

Different stories claimed that Shinde had bluntly informed Shah that Devendra Fadnavis, the BJP frontrunner for the chief minister’s workplace, can’t be his boss, and supplied outdoors assist to the BJP-NCP (Ajit Pawar) authorities if his calls for aren’t met. Shinde himself and his get together, mentioned Shirsat, had been averse to him transferring to the Centre.