Alliance with Shiv Sena not natural and permanent: Nana Patole

Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Friday miffed over the appointment of Shiv Senas Ambadas Danve as the Leader of Opposition in the state Legislative Council issued a stern warning stating that the alliance with Uddhav Thackerayled party is not natural and permanent adding that the ties were made in a different situationShiv Sena recently picked Danve as the LoP in the Legislative Council a move which riled its allies in the statePatole alleged that the step was taken without taking Congress in the loopThe post of LoP in the Legislative Council has been given to the Nationalist Congress Party NCP while the post of Vice President of the Council has been given to Shiv Sena So we were of the view that Congress should get this Council LoP post But the decision has been taken without taking us into consideration We will take up the issue he saidPatole said that Congress is ready to talk to Shiv Sena on the matterWe are ready to talk and go ahead If they Shiv Sena dont want to talk it is their concern We had an alliance with them in a different situation This is not our natural or permanent alliance Patole saidThe Congress state chief also hit out at the Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavisled new government in Maharashtra and alleged that it was formed using the central agencies and funds while also claiming that the government would not last longThe cabinet expansion took place 39 days after the government was formed Maharashtra has a tradition that portfolios are allotted immediately But now they are yet to be decided which shows the fight for plum ministries is there said PatoleMeanwhile the muchawaited expansion of the Maharashtra Cabinet took place on Tuesday with a total of 18 MLAs 9 each from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the rest 9 from the Shindeled Shiv Sena faction sworn in as ministers in a grand ceremony at Mumbais Raj BhavanThe Cabinet expansion came over 40 days after Chief Minister Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis were sworn in following a rebellion led by the former who toppled the Uddhav Thackerayled Maha Vikas Aghadigovernment in the stateOn June 30 Shinde had taken oath as Maharashtra Chief Minister and Devendra Fadnavis as his deputyThe BJP MLAs who took oath were Chandrakant Patil Sudhir Mungantiwar Girish Mahajan Suresh Khade Radha Krishna Vikhe Patil Ravindra Chavhan Mangal Prabhat Lodha Vijaykumar Gavit and Atul SaveLeaders from Shiv Sena inducted were Dada Bhuse Shambhuraje Desai Sandeepan Bhumre Uday Samant Tanaji Sawant Abdul Sattar Deepak Kesarkar Gulabrao Patil and Sanjay RathodOn June 28 Devendra Fadnavis met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and asked him for a floor test The next day Uddhav Thackeray offered his resignation to the Governor as the Chief Minister of MaharashtraThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever