Mumbai/New Delhi: BJP made a dramatic public appearance in the week-long political turmoil in Maharashtra late Tuesday evening with leader of opposition in the assembly Devendra Fadnavis handing over a letter to Governor B S Koshyari at Raj Bhavan requesting him to direct CM Uddhav Thackeray to immediately prove the MVA government's majority on the floor of the House.
Fadnavis said the MVA government was in a minority as 39 Shiv Sena MLAs "are out (have pulled out of the government) saying they do not want to stay with NCP and Congress". He said BJP has referred to various Supreme Court orders in its letter. "We expect the governor to give an appropriate decision after scrutinising the SC orders," he said.
The opposition leader had gone to New Delhi in the morning and had a 90-minute meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah, wherein he discussed the nitty-gritty of a possible coalition with the Eknath Shinde-led group of Sena MLAS. BJP offered no formal comment on the issues that came up for discussion at Fadnavis's meeting with Shah.
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