All the three parties concede that significant sacrifices have been made by all in the process of coming together
An agenda for governance, not an election manifesto, in which contentious issues like the Uniform Civil Code and Ram Mandir will be kept aside, will be the working document on the basis of which the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Shiv Sena will come together to stake claim to form a government in Maharashtra in the near future, top source in the grouping said.
All the three parties concede that significant sacrifices have been made by all in the process of coming together. The Shiv Sena has not just lost a Cabinet berth in the Union government and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), but also in several municipalities: In both Nashik and Aurangabad, it is in power in alliance with the BJP.
The situation is even more tenuous in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), where the Sena has a majority but could easily be pushed back by BJP if the Congress and NCP don’t back it. “Municipalities are its (Sena’s) problem. It has to sort it out,” said a Congress leader.
The NCP was riven in the two until its leader, Sharad Pawar, put his foot down on November 11 and announced that until a common minimum programme was in place, nothing would move. In a way, he was giving the Sena a chance for an honourable exit because he sensed that many in his party were not for rocking the boat and tying up with a grouping that was sure to enrage the ruling BJP and invite the wrath of the Enforcement Directorate...
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