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The crucial Assembly ing to Government formation As per the power-sharing Speaker’s post will go to the in Maharashtra, the political arrangement devised by the Congress in all likelihood. scene will shift to Mumbai, Congress and the NCP at the Senior Congress leader where the senior leaders of the national Capital, the Shiv Sena Prithviraj Chavan is being dis- two parties will meet Shiv Sena (with 56 MLAs) and the NCP cussed as the next Speaker. The president Uddhav Thackeray (54 MLAs) will get 15 min- second choice will be another on Friday evening to hammer istries each, while the Congress former Chief Minister Ashok 56 057.8 out a power-sharing deal for (44 MLAs) will get 12 min- Chavan. the “Maha Vikas Aghadi” istries in accordance with an Before the Friday meeting olitical firestorm erupted Government in the State. approximate ratio of 4 MLAs: with the Congress-NCP lead- Pover controversial BJP MP “Maharashtra will get a one Ministry. ers, Uddhav will brief his party Pragya Thakur’s inclusion in Thakur’s inclusion in the par- Government tomorrow. At the Both the NCP and the MLAs about the ongoing talks Parliament consultative com- liamentary panel, BJP MP meeting scheduled, the three Congress have agreed to give with the Congress and NCP mittee on defence. Meenakshi Lekhi said the party parties will put a stamp on the the Chief Minister’s post to the leaders during the past few The 21-member commit- seems to have lost its faith in new Government. We (the Shiv Sena. Though there has days. All the Sena MLAs have tee, headed by Defence democracy and forgotten that three parties) may meet been a speculation that the been asked to come fully pre- Minister Rajnath Singh, also Thakur is an elected member Governor Bhagat Singh NCP has been insisting on the pared with their identity cards, includes National Conference of Parliament. People know Koshyari jointly on Saturday Chief Minister’s post being the election certificates issued leader and parliamentarian that Thakur was falsely impli- and stake claim to form a ! " # ! ! ! ! # $ # # rotated equally between it and by their respective poll return- Farooq Abdullah who is under- cated by the Congress-led UPA Government in Maharashtra,” " P ! ! & the Shiv Sena, the two parties ing officers and other relevant going detention in Jammu & Government, said Lekhi, who a confidant Shiv Sena have not yet broached the issue documents which may be Kashmir post re-organisation is in the panel. spokesperson Sanjay Raut said which was chaired by party be disclosed. ing between the senior with the Shiv Sena. required in the coming days. of the erstwhile State into two Thakur, a first-time MP in New Delhi on Thursday. chief Sonia Gandhi, sources The major engagement on Congress and NCP leaders at Given the mood prevailing It remains to be seen if Union Territories after scrap- from Bhopal, is an accused in After the top leaders of the said that the Congress and the Friday will be a crucial meet- the meeting on Wednesday. in both the Congress and the Uddhav, who is tipped to the ping of the Article 370 that the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, Congress and the NCP for- NCP would work out finer ing to be held in the evening Given the unanimity NCP, they would not be averse chief ministerial candidate of granted special status to J&K. and is currently out on bail. She malised the Common details of the Government for- between the Congress-NCP between the Congress and the to giving the Chief Minister’s the Maha Vikas Aghadi, will be The committe comprise 12 is facing trial for multiple Minimum Programme (CMP) mation in Maharashtra during leaders with Shiv Sena presi- NCP on all issues relating to the post for full five year period. elected as the leader of the Shiv members from the Lok Sabha charges under the Unlawful and worked out modalities for their meeting with the Sena dent Uddhav Thackeray and a Government formation and But, the two parties, especial- Sena Legislature Party in place and nine from the Rajya Sabha. Activities (Prevention) Act. the Government formation, president on Friday. few of his senior party col- the fact that the Shiv Sena is not ly the NCP, will demand their of Eknath Shinde, who had ear- The BJP strongly defended Thakur’s nomination to the Congress Working Former Maharashtra Chief leagues. Apart from senior in mood to impose any major pound of flesh in terms of lier been elected as the Sena’s her presence on the panel and the panel triggered a political Committee (CWC) on Minister Prithviraj Chavan Congress leaders, NCP presi- conditions, it is quite likely that important ministries for for- Legislature party leader. asserted the Bhopal MP can row as the Congress attacked Thursday granted in-princi- informed the media after a dent Sharad Pawar is also the three parties will hammer going the Chief Minister’s post Informed sources in the help in “framing right method- the Government, saying it was ple approval to the party to meeting that there was a “com- expected to remain present at out a power-sharing pact for on a rotational basis. Congress and the NCP said the ology” so that innocents are not unfortunate for the country form a new Government in plete unanimity” on all issues this meeting. the “Maha Vikas Aghadi” If the Chief Minister’s post two parties have been insisting, “victimised” the way she was that an MP accused of “spread- Maharashtra along with its and when the alliance partners, On their part, senior Government in Maharashtra. goes to the Shiv Sena for full informally though, on Uddhav done by the Congress-led UPA ing terror” has been nominat- pre-poll partner, NCP, and the which would include the Sena, Congress and NCP leaders There will be two compo- five years’ period, then there being the Chief Minister Government. ed as member of a defence- Shiv Sena. announce their CMP, then the have kept Uddhav in the loop nents for the power-sharing will be two Deputy Chief instead of Eknath Hitting back at the related After the CWC meeting, power-sharing formula would on what transpired at the meet- formula that will be discussed Ministers — one each from the Shinde. Congress which criticised committee. 56 057.8 n a partial rollback of the Imilitary-like uniforms, ! Marshals in the Rajya Sabha were seen without their cap on Thursday. On the first day of " 56 057.8 the Winter Session on Monday, !" # their new attire had invited crit- bus marshal saved a four- icism from some ex-Army offi- $ Ayear-old girl from the cers and Opposition leaders. L M clutches of a kidnaper in a On Thursday, as soon as '( Cluster bus, earning praise the House assembled to take up from the Delhi Government the Zero Hour, some members which promised to reward him from Opposition benches L M for his exemplary service. Later pointed out to the change in the ! on the child was united with marshals’ uniform. To this her parents. Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu " Arun Kumar, 24, a marshal remarked, “As I have said, # # deployed in the bus on route nothing reflects like Army...(the ! () O 728, saved the child from a 17- review) process is on.” + ,() +- year-old boy who had alleged- overpowered the accused and Following criticism, Naidu ./0 1 ly kidnapped the child from took him to the police station. had on Tuesday ordered review Nizamuddin Railway station. “Realising that something of the new military-style uni- The boy had boarded the bus was amiss as the girl was cry- form of marshals in the House. at Palam flyover around 11 am ing, I alerted the bus driver and “I have decided to ask the 2# ! on Wednesday. Kumar said he also informed conductor Secretariat to revisit the same,” became suspicious of the boy’s Virendra. The driver closed the Rajya Sabha Chairman had credentials after he found that both the bus doors to stop the said on Tuesday. $$ the girl was weeping bitterly. kidnapper from fleeing. The Their new uniform had %&'() # The marshal questioned driver then took the bus to sparked off criticism, including 33 the boy and his answers only Dhaula Kuan police station,” from former Army chief ) aroused his suspicion of him said the bus marshal, whose act General Ved Prakash Malik, L M being a kidnapper. With the was praised by Delhi Chief who had described the attire )## help of the bus conductor, the Minister Arvind illegal and a security 4 ! driver and other passengers, he Kejriwal.