Mumbai:
Maha Vikas Aghadi’s government in Maharashtra, which has completed six months of training, is stable and strong and will certainly end its five-year term, Minister of State Nawab Malik said on Thursday.
Shiv Sena’s president, Uddhav Thackeray, was sworn in as chief minister of state on November 28 of last year with six ministers, two from his party, the NCP and Congress, and the cabinet was expanded later.
The opposition BJP previously raised questions about the stability of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, made up of three ideologically different parties. Some BJP leaders have reportedly said it would be a short-lived regime.
In connection with this, the Minister for National Minorities Affairs and the national spokesperson for the NCPs, Nawab Malik, said: The government has finished six months. It is stable and solid. The BJP had declared that this government would be short-lived. But he will definitively complete his five-year term. “
Malik alleged that the BJP was still chatting about the stability of the government. “And the government will not come down just because it is chatting,” he joked.
Earlier this week, BJP MP Narayan Rane met with Maharashtra Governor BS Koshyari and demanded the imposition of presidential power in the state on the “failure” of the government led by Thackeray in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
Nawab Malik said that the MVA was formed on the basis of a “common minimum program” developed by the three parties, who work together.
“The government is currently fighting the COVID-19 threat. We will overcome it and lead the government properly,” he said.
The Shiv Sena, which has 56 seats in the National Assembly, forged an alliance with the formerly rival parties NCP (having 54 deputies) and Congress (44 deputies) to form the government last year, after having broken the links with long-term ally BJP. After the elections to the Maharashtra Assembly, which has 288 members last year, the Shiv Sena and the BJP argued over the sharing of the chief ministerial post in the state on a rotational basis.