Uddhav and Aaditya meet Fadnavis, Worli MLA calls it ‘friendly exchange'
The meeting comes a day after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis offered former ally and Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray to join the Mahayuti.
'Uddhavji, now we don't have to do anything till 2029. We have no scope left to come there (to opposition benches). But you have the scope to come here (to treasury benches). We can think about it differently. We will talk differently,' Fadnavis had said in the legislative council on Wednesday.
The meeting took place after a delegation of Shiv Sena (UBT) legislators held a meeting with legislative council chairman Ram Shinde and Fadnavis. The delegation reminded the government about its pending demand of appointment of Leader of Opposition in the legislative Assembly. Following this, Thackeray gifted a book titled 'Hindichi Sakti Havich Kashala (What is the need of making Hindi mandatory?)' to Fadnavis and Shinde.
'We presented him a collection of articles from apolitical individuals opposing imposition of Hindi. We are opposing the imposition of Hindi from the first standard,' said Aaditya Thackeray after the meeting.
When asked about the consecutive exchanges between Thackeray and Fadnavis, the MLA from Worli constituency said that 'friendly exchanges' routinely happen in the legislature.
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