The deadlock in the Maharashtra Assembly has been on for more than two-weeks now since the result of the Vidhan Sabha elections in the state were announced on October 24 and BJP remained shy of the majority mark with 105 seats in a house 288 members.

 As the clock continues to tick for the Maharashtra Assembly impasse that has been going on for more than two weeks now, several development taking place in the backdrop hint towards a probable conclusion coming up soon.

After Maharashtra Governor on Saturday asked Devendra Fadnavis to show interest and willingness to form a governmet, Shiv Sena leader and CM contender Aditya Thackeray met party MLAs lodged in The Retreat Hotel in Mumbai's Malad on late Saturday night.

The bitterness between Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was clear in Sena’s mouthpiece, Saamana editorial, wherein it compared the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the infamous German authoritarian ruler Adolf Hitler and claimed that "Maharashtra was not a slave of Delhi".

Meanwhile, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), which is hoping to benefit from the political deadlock in Maharashtra has made it clear that it won’t join hands with the BJP. Nawab Malik, an NCP leader said: We will not go with BJP. We will discuss with our MLAs on support.

"I give my best wishes to the BJP to form their government in the state, as they claim to have majority and the numbers to have their own Chief Minister," said Sena's Sanjay Raut, who has been leading the party's offensive against the BJP since the counting of the assembly election votes.

More than two weeks on, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari invited the BJP yesterday to form government as the single largest party.

The BJP and the Sena, who were the state's ruling coalition, fell out over a 50:50 power share -- including a turn at the Chief Minister's post -- that Uddhav Thackeray's party has been insisting on.