Summary:
“Patel has been tasked with ensuring that the MLAs don’t meet anyone apart from the BJP leaders. “All MLAs are in excellent spirits,” a BJP functionary in Mumbai said. Congress MLAs Ramesh Jarkiholi, Bheema Naik, JN Ganesh, Pratap Gouda Patil, Mahesh Kumatahalli, and Umesh Jadhav, besides Independent MLAs R Shankar and H Nagesh were camping in Mumbai since Saturday. Since Saturday, senior BJP leaders and office-bearer from Mumbai have also kept away. It claims that at least seven more MLAs are expected to join the nine already holed up in Powai’s Renaissance Hotel..