Fadnavis says no 50-50 deal as BJP, Sena harden stands

There was no assurance... There was a proposal by the Shiv Sena for sharing the chair... but it was never admitted by our leadership DEVENDRA FADNAVIS, Maha CM

Uddhav Thackerayji has said that we have other options too but we don’t want to do the sin of accepting that alternative

SANJAY RAUT, Shiv Sena leader

MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday challenged the Shiv Sena’s claim that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) agreed to share the CM’S post with its partner for half the government’s five-year term as neither side budged on the terms of cabinet formation a week after the assembly election.

Soon after Fadnavis’ statement rebutting his party’s claim, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray cancelled a planned 4 pm meeting with the BJP on government formation, likely worsening the already strained relationship between the BJP and its oldest political ally.

“Union minister Prakash Javdekar and party leader Bhupendra Yadav were supposed to attend the meeting to start discussions on formation of the next government from the BJP side, while the Sena would have been

NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) told Goair on Tuesday to replace within a fortnight the Pratt & Whitney (PW) engines in 13 Airbus A320 Neo planes that have flown more than 3,000 hours, or face grounding of the aircraft, one day after instructing Indigo not to operate such planes.

Aircraft fitted with the engines have run into technical and operational glitches, and DGCA has detected a pattern of an increasing number of incidents involving Airbus 320 Neo planes. Goair has 13 such aircraft on its fleet.