Mumbai: Even as the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance has called it quits in Maharashtra, the former does not plan to pull out of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre.
Shiv Sena has 18 MPs in the Lok Sabha. Anant Geete, the sole MP from Shiv Sena in the Modi Cabinet has been asked by party chief Uddhav Thackeray to tender resignation. The Heavy Industries Minister will apparently submit his resignation when Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns from his five-day US visit.
Even as the BJP enjoys a very comfortable majority in the Lok Sabha with its 272 MPs, Shiv Sena is the party with the highest number of parliamentarians in the NDA camp.
BJP broke its 25-year-old alliance with the Shiv Sena last week after talks between the two parties over seat sharing for Maharashtra Assembly elections remained inconclusive.
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