Assam Minister Ashok Singhal visited the posh lodge in Guwahati, the place dissident Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde is tenting with different MLAs from Maharashtra, and held a dialogue with them, sources mentioned on Sunday.
A supply near the event instructed PTI that the Housing and Urban Affairs of Assam went to the lodge late Saturday night time and held discussions with Shinde and the opposite insurgent MLAs.
It is, nonetheless, not instantly identified what Singhal mentioned with the insurgent Shiv Sena legislators and Independent MLAs from the western state.
When contacted, Singhal confirmed that he had gone to the lodge, however declined to share particulars.
However, a detailed affiliate of the minister instructed PTI, “He went there to meet an MLA whom he knew. He was there for some time and had a cup of tea.” It is important that the assembly passed off simply hours after 16 dissident MLAs have been despatched disqualification notices.
The BJP, which as soon as had an alliance with the Shiv Sena, has to this point brushed its arms off from the current political turmoil in Maharashtra.
Despite sending a celebration MP and one MLA to obtain the legislators at Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (LGBI) Airport in Guwahati on June 22, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that dissidents got here as visitors on their very own to the state.
The Assam Police has taken over the safety from the personal guards of the lodge and isn’t permitting anybody to enter the premises.
The Maharashtra Legislature Secretariat on Saturday issued ‘summons’ to 16 of the insurgent Shiv Sena MLAs, together with Shinde, searching for written replies by the night of June 27 to the complaints searching for their disqualification.
After receiving the summons, the Shiv Sena MLAs have been huddling contained in the lodge Since Sunday morning, sources mentioned.
“They are discussing various options to respond to the notices. The current political situation is being deliberated in the meeting,” the supply mentioned.
In what appears to be an obvious bid to topple the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities (MVA) in Maharashtra, dissident legislators of Shiv Sena, which heads the ruling coalition, are tenting in Guwahati, round 2,700 km away.
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