Devendra Fadnavis had assured his party's MLAs on Thursday that they will ultimately form the government in Maharashtra.
Amid the ongoing negotiation between Shiv Sena, NCP and the Congress, the BJP on Friday seemed sure of returning to power with state party chief claiming support of 119 MLAs.
The BJP which contested the October assembly election with Shiv Sena has 105 MLAs in the 288-member house and claims to have the support of independents and smaller parties.
"We have the highest number. With 119 MLAs we'll form BJP government in the state, Devendra Fadnavis has expressed this confidence before party leaders. We're committed to give a stable govt to state. There can't be a government in Maharashtra without BJP," Maharastra unit chief Chandrakant Patil said.
This comes a day after former Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis assured his party's MLAs that they will ultimately form the government in Maharashtra.
A meeting of all the newly-elected BJP MLAs of Maharashtra was held in Mumbai on Thursday where state BJP president Chandrakant Patil and Fadnavis addressed the legislators. The meeting was held to discuss the future course of action.
Fadnavis assured the MLAs that they will ultimately form the government in the state, sources said. The MLAs were also told that they will be called to Mumbai during government formation and until then they must go to their respective constituencies and tell the people that the BJP will return to power.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Congress and Shiv Sena have come together to form a coalition government in Maharashtra and are currently in talks for a Common Minimum Programme (CMP).
The leaders of the three parties have finalised the draft of CMP for a coalition government in Maharashtra after several rounds of consultations over the last two days and the same will be submitted to their respective party presidents.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Friday the coalition government of Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress will last the full five-year term if it came to power in Maharashtra.
Sharad Pawar said to reporters in Nagpur, ''The process to form the government has begun. The coalition government will last five years and there is no possibility of a mid-term poll in Maharashtra.''
President's Rule was imposed in the state on Thursday after Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari's report to Centre that no stable government was possible in Maharashtra under the current political scenario.
Shiv Sena and BJP contested the recently-held assembly elections together but failed to reach an agreement for government formation. The Shiv Sena's demand of 50-50 government formula, asking for the chief minister's post of two and half years was not accepted by the BJP.
After BJP failed to stake claim to form the government, the Shiv Sena has tried to enlist the support of NCP and Congress for an alliance government.
Since Shiv Sena has 56 seats in the Maharashtra Assembly, way below the half-way mark of 144, it will need both the NCP's 54 and Congress' 44 legislators to reach the magic number.
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