The Shiv Sena would require the NCP and Congress on its side to prove the numbers that it needs to produce before the Maharashtra Governor by Monday evening. However, the anxiety in the Sena camp was hyper as the Congress met in Delhi but there was no decision on backing the Shiv Sena. The Congress high command will now meet Maharashtra leaders in the afternoon.

To give the momentum a further push, the Shiv Sena quit the NDA by asking its sole union minister Arvind Sawant to resign from the Narendra Modi government. The Congress and NCP had asked the Sena to leave the NDA alliance in case they were to extend a helping hand to the party in power sharing in Maharashtra.