Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil on Saturday said the swearing-in of the Uddhav Thackeray ministry is illegal as it went beyond prescribed format. Ministers while taking oath included names of their leaders and other figures which is not as per protocol, Patil told reporters at Vidhan Bhawan.
NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik rubbished Patil's claims saying many BJP MPs had done the same thing. “If Patil's yardstick is used, half the Lok Sabha will be empty,” he added.
“People had voted for BJP-Shiv Sena alliance which got 161 MLAs, but Shiv Sena betrayed the mandate. Since the first press conference they had started talking about alternatives,” Patil said.