Shiv Sena legislators who met party chief on Friday want Uddhav Thackeray as Chief Minister in the three-party government of which the two other constituents would be the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

Insiders said NCP chief Sharad Pawar had proposed Sanjay Raut, Sena's MP and party's voice that led the attack against the BJP and worked as mediator between the three parties. The suggestion came at Pawar's meeting with Thackeray and his son Aaditya Thursday midnight.