Uddhav Thackeray Reaches Out to Smaller Parties Amid Rajya Sabha Race
NDTV
Mr Thackeray's Shiv Sena, the NCP and the Congress are expected to move all their MLAs to different hotels in Mumbai on Tuesday evening.
The race for Rajya Sabha in Maharashtra has driven Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to schedule a series of meetings on Monday with smaller parties and independents.
Uddhav Thackeray is also set to meet this evening senior leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition that he leads, before a big meeting of all the coalition MLAs tomorrow.
Mr Thackeray's Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress are expected to move all their MLAs to different hotels in Mumbai on Tuesday evening, to protect their votes in the Rajya Sabha election.
All the MLAs of the Shiv Sena (55), NCP (52), and Congress (44) will be sequestered till the vote. Two NCP MLAs - Anil Deshmukh and minister Nawab Malik - are currently in jail, so one seat is lying vacant.