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Maharashtra : Narayan Rane to join the Congress |
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Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane, who had been expelled from the Shiv Sena recently, is all set to join the Congress. He had a meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi last week. Sources say that Rane has finally made his choice between the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party, which were both wooing him and has finally decided to throw in his lot with the Congress. He may announce his plan in a few days. Before that, he has decided to quit as Member of the Maharashtra Assembly and would try to come back to the House on the Congress ticket.
Reports say that the Congress leadership was desperate to woo Rane with the sole objective of preventing him from joining the NCP. NCP leader Sharad Pawar was in touch with Rane much before he quit the Sena and has gone on record as saying he encouraged the Sena rebel to split the party.
Meanwhile, a consortium of companies owned by former Chief Minister and Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi and another Shiv Sena leader Raj Thackeray (a relation of Shiv Sena supremo, Bal Thackeray) has bagged the National Textile Corporation’s Kohinoor Mills plot in Mumbai for an unprecedented Rs. 421 crores. The auction of the plot was conducted in Mumbai on July 21. The Congress has demanded an inquiry into how the two leaders got the money to make the huge bid.
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