READY TO RESIGN ...BUT CAN YOU PROMISE ME SAINIK AS SUCCESSOR: UDDHAV

Mumbai: Uddhav Thackeray, fighting a revolt that has endangered his govt in Maharashtra, said on Wednesday he is “ready to resign” anytime, but can you promise me next CM will be from Shiv Sena, but stopped short of announcing his resignation as CM. Sena chief said he was “hurt” at his own party men turning on him. “Despite Pawar Saheb’s and Kamal Nath’s support, if my own people don’t want me to be CM then what should I do? I don’t know if I can call them my people,” he said.

CM LEAVES FROM CMR AFTER SPEECH

• Will quit as Chief Minister if even one of the disgruntled MLAs says he doesn’t want me as the Chief Minister
• Sharad Pawar and Kamal Nath phoned me saying they want me to continue as CM
• Getting calls from MLAs who have gone with Shinde; claiming that they were forcibly taken by Shinde
• Shiv Sena can never be separated from Hindutva