Mumbai, November 11: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut was admitted to Mumbai's Leelavati Hospital on Monday after he complained of uneasiness and chest pain. After initial treatment, doctors said that Sanjay Raut's condition was stable. Raut, who has been dealing with media amid Shiv Sena's virtual fight with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over government formation in Maharashtra, will not talk to the press for two days. Uddhav Thackeray For Maharashtra CM in Shiv Sena-Proposed Pact With Congress-NCP? Two Deputy Chief Minister Posts Offered.

Raut has been advised complete bed rest by his doctors. Meanwhile in Maharashtra, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is ready to support the Shiv Sena after its minister Arvind Swant quit the Modi government at the Centre. Earlier today, the NCP said that it was waiting for the Congress to take a call on supporting a Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra, and would take a decision jointly with the grand old party. BJP, Shiv Sena Split: Timeline of Maharashtra Political Crisis That Led to Hindutva Allies Breaking Apart.

Congress has called its senior leaders from Maharashtra to Delhi for a meeting in the evening to take a final call on the matter. The unprecedented political development came a day after the BJP conceded that it was unable to form the government, following which Governor BS Koshyari invited the Shiv Sena to make an attempt. Sena President Uddhav Thackeray also met NCP chief Sharad Pawar.

The Pawar-Thackeray meeting came shortly after the Shiv Sena's Heavy Industries Minister Arvind Sawant met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and tendered his resignation from the Union Cabinet, "in deference to the party's directives" and "in view of the circumstances that arose after the Maharashtra elections".

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