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In a letter to Bhagwat, Tiwari said the RSS chief should take a serious note of the situation and intervene to end the deadlock over government formation in Maharashtra.
He said people were worried over the Sangh’s “silence” on the issue.
“Gadkari will be able to resolve the situation within two hours,” Tiwari said, when asked about his letter to Bhagwat.
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Tiwari, founder of Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, an NGO which highlighted large-scale suicides by farmers in Maharashtra, specially those from his Vidarbha region, switched over from the BJP to the Shiv Sena ahead of the October 24 polls.
The BJP and Shiv Sena are engaged in a standoff over sharing the chief minister’s post, with the Uddhav Thackeray- led party demanding an equal division of the top post’s tenure and the BJP rejecting the same.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has asserted that the next chief minister of the state will be from his party.
Multiple high-profile meetings in New Delhi and Mumbai on Monday, including one between NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, failed to give any indication of breaking the 11-day-long deadlock over government formation in the state.