A meeting between Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday triggered political speculation, reported NDTV.
Raut, who met Fadnavis at a luxury hotel in Mumbai, clarified that the meeting was for an interview for the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna, adding that the party chief Uddhav Thackeray was aware of it. Raut is in charge of Saamna. Saturday’s meeting ran for two hours, according to India Today.
“Devendra Fadnavis is not our enemy,” Raut told reporters. “We have worked with him. Is it a crime to meet Fadnavis, who is a former chief minister and now the Opposition leader in the state Assembly? We have ideological differences but we are not enemies.”
Raut said he had interviewed Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and had also announced that he would speak to Fadnavis, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and…