Sanjay Raut

He told reporters that there there are no plans of any meeting between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray this week.

Raut also said NCP chief Sharad Pawar will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday and apprise him about the farmers' distress in the state which has been under President's rule since November 12.

Earlier in the day, Sharad Pawar's meeting with Sonia Gandhi lasted nearly 50 minutes

Politics in Maharashtra took an unexpected turn after the Shiv Sena walked away from its longtime ally BJP over sharing the chief ministerial post after Assembly results were declared on October 24.

"Ab haarna aur darna manaa hai..," the Rajya Sabha member and Sena's spokesman tweeted, a day after he was discharged from the city-based Lilavati Hospital, where he underwent an angioplasty procedure on Monday.

Raut visited the Lilavati Hospital on November 11 evening after he complained of mild chest pain.

Raut, who underwent an angioplasty procedure on November 11, has been tweeting from his hospital bed over the current political situation in Maharashtra

Raut, who led the Sena's charge to seek equal share in power with the BJP after the Assembly poll results in Maharashtra, complained of chest pain on November 11 following which he underwent angioplasty

Raut, who has been speaking to the media daily on his party's stand on the current political situation in Maharashtra, came to the hospital around 3.30 pm.

Chief Minister Fadnavis handed over his resignation to the governor on Friday afternoon after the deadlock over government formation in the state could not be broken even a fortnight after the Assembly poll results were out.

Talking to reporters here, he said the BJP should not misuse the provision of "caretaker" government and remain in power in Maharashtra, where there is an impasse over the next dispensation.

In an veiled attack on the BJP, Sanjay Raut said those responsible for political instability were causing harm the state

Interacting with reporters, Raut also said his party’s MLAs and the Opposition Congress and NCP "would not cross sides"

Raut told reporters it was a "courtesy call"

Amid the stalemate continuing over government formation in the state, Raut told reporters that no fresh proposal has been received from the BJP or sent to it.

Sanjay Raut, without taking any names, also said somebody was trying to prove Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray a liar and admitted that everyone is "greedy" for power

Sanjay Raut said Maharashtra’s politics was changing and that his party would win in its fight for justice

The Rajya Sabha member, whose party espouses the cause of 'Marathi Manoos', posted the message in Hindi on his twitter handle.

The meeting is scheduled to happen a day after Raut claimed that Shiv Sena would soon have its chief minister with the support of "170 MLAs"

Talking to reporters here, he said there has been no talks yet between the BJP and the Sena on government formation.