Amidst the ongoing political tussle in Maharashtra, BJP leader and former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has reportedly conducted a private meeting with Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut at a hotel. This is probably the first meeting between the two veteran political leaders after Shiv Sena severed its age-old ties with the BJP and joined hands with Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to form the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition government in Maharashtra last year.
Earlier, the newspaper had only carried an interview of veteran politico and NCP chief Sharad Pawar. According to reports, the meeting at a top five-star hotel in Mumbai lasted from 1 PM to 3 PM, i.e., about 2 hours. After the meeting, a tweet from Sanjay Raut has also surfaced which is likely to heat up the politics of Maharashtra once again.
Raut, who is noted for his cryptic…