Ahmedabad, 7 December 2013

Shiv Sena president Udhav Thackeray today called on Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Shri Narendra Modi in capital town of Gujarat. Shri Thackeray was welcomed by BJP leaders at Ahmedabad airport where he arrived today afternoon in chartered plane. Early this week, Shiv Sena’s Manohar Joshi had called on Gujarat Chief Minister in Gandhinagar. Both leaders had long political discussion. Modi has so far held campaign rallies across north and south Indian states, but skipped Maharashtra which is one of the major states so far number of Lok Sabha seats are concerned.

Due to split of vote between BJP-Shiv Sena alliance and Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena(MNS), the NCP-Congress alliance has enjoyed upper hand in Maharashtra in recent years. Both Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and even Ramdas Athwalie led Republican Party favor Narendra Modi as prime minister. It has to be seen whether ‘Narendra Modi for PM’ cause is able to unite Thackeray brothers and others.

Official communication by state govt

Maharashtra’s popular public figure and Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackrey today paid a courtesy visit to the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at his official residence here.

The meeting between the two leaders was lasted over 75 minutes, during which they discussed on several subjects, an official release said.

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Congress-NCP alliance ruled Maharashtra state has 48 Lok Sabha seats. In year 2009, Congress won highest 17 seats while Shiv Sena won 11 seat. Shiv Sena partner BJP won 9 seats while Congress partner NCP won 8 seats. 1 seat was won by independent candidate. Thus Congress-NCP alliance won 25 seats while BJP-Shiv Sena combine won 20 seats. In 1996 BJP-SS won 33 seats, Congress 15. This was the highest score both parties did so far.