Mumbai: Denying there was a cold war between him and CM Devendra Fadnavis, Dy CM Eknath Shinde said he and Fadnavis “have a ‘thanda thanda, cool cool’ relationship.” Shinde denied there was any internal strife in Mahayuti and said he was not setting up any parallel system or apparatus. He also said that had Uddhav Thackeray not become CM, the Sena would not have split, while addressing a meeting of all Sena MPs, legislators and office bearers from Mumbai.
CM Fadnavis said there was nothing wrong in the setting up of a medical aid cell at Mantralaya by Shinde “as the aim is to help people.”
Shinde further said CM Fadnavis and DCM Ajit Pawar were working as a team. He said, “The DCM’s Medical Aid Cell was set up in the past too. It (cell set up by Shinde) will coordinate with CM’s Medical Relief Fund cell and help poor and needy patients. So there is no duplication of work. There is only one CM war room. Even now key projects will be pushed from the war room.”- Chaitanya Marpakwar
