31 October,2017 07:54 AM IST | Mumbai | Agencies
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will go for a ministry reshuffle before the winter session of the state legislature, scheduled to begin in Nagpur on December 11, and it will see the induction of former Shiv Sena leader Narayan Rane
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will go for a ministry reshuffle before the winter session of the state legislature, scheduled to begin in Nagpur on December 11, and it will see the induction of former Shiv Sena leader Narayan Rane.
Narayan Rane
In the fold
"Rane has joined the NDA. He will be inducted into the state ministry. He will be a minister from our (BJP) quota," Fadnavis said at his official residence Varsha. The BJP-led Maharashtra government completes three years in office today.
Fadnavis said the Shiv Sena could have objected to Rane's induction had he "come to us from the Sena". "He was in the Congress for a decade after leaving the Sena." Rane had set up his own party, the Maharashtra Swabhiman Paksha, after resigning from the Congress last month.
'No big brother'
Asked if he had conveyed to the Sena that it should learn to accept the BJP as 'big brother' due to its good numbers in the Assembly, Fadnavis said, "I do not believe (in the concept of) 'big brother'."
"We have always respected Balasaheb Thackeray. Uddhav Thackeray is senior to me in age and position. But the public decided (in the 2014 Assembly polls) which party is senior," he added.
Fadnavis said any alliance between the BJP and Sena (after the next Assembly polls) can happen "only on the basis of this position".
