A day of hectic parleys, negotiations

The Shiv Sena, Congress and the NCP held meetings on Monday as the fortnight-long political impasse in Maharashtra continued. Political leaders crisscrossed Maharashtra and Delhi, holding talks across party lines in an attempt to gather the requisite support to form the government

Sunday

7:30pm: Maharashtra Governor invites Shiv Sena to indicate its ability to form the government

Monday

9:30am: Shiv Sena asks its MLAs, camping at The Retreat Hotel in Mumbai, to sign the letter of support

10am: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi chairs a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) in New Delhi. Around the same time, NCP chief Sharad Pawar calls a meeting of his party’s core committee at his Mumbai residence 10:30am: Sena chief Uddhav

Thackeray dispatches his key aides, secretary Milind Narvekar and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Desai, to New Delhi to hold talks with Congress’s Ahmed Patel

12 noon: Congress calls its key Maharashtra leaders for a meeting. In Mumbai, state BJP’s core committee meets at the official residence of Devendra Fadnavis

1.30pm: Uddhav Thackeray meets Sharad Pawar at a Bandra hotel. Around the same time, Sena Lok Sabha MP Arvind Sawant resigns as Union minister in New Delhi 4pm: Maharashtra Congress leaders join CWC meeting in New Delhi

4:30pm: Sonia and Uddhav hold a telephonic conversation

6:30pm: A Shiv Sena delegation, led by Aaditya Thackeray, meets Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at the Raj Bhavan

7.45pm: Aaditya tells reporters that they sought more time from the Governor but the request was denied

8.30pm: Senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan tells reporters in New Delhi that talks with NCP remained inconclusive and they will hold another round of discussions with the NCP chief on Tuesday

9pm: Governor invites NCP to form the government in the state