The Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress have been working on a prospective coalition, to finally form a government in Maharashtra. The state has been under President Rule ever since the BJP and all other parties failed to stake claims and form a government.

However, now the stale mate is nearing an end. The Congress and NCP is slated to have a meeting with the Shiv Sena this evening also, to decide the candidate for the Chief Minister post in the state.

The meeting comes after names of Sena leaders Sanjay Raut and Arvind Sawant have emerged as frontrunners for the post of chief minister. Sources in the party said that Uddhav Thackeray is not keen on holding the post, following which the two names were suggested.

Raut has always been making news with his comments ever since the Maharashtra battle began. Most recently, talking to reporters, Raut reiterated that his party will get the Maharashtra CM’s post when the three-party alliance with Congress and NCP assumes power. “The time for offers has ended,” Raut said, when asked about reports that the BJP had agreed to share the CM’s post with the Sena.

On twitter too, the minister has been making quite a buzz. He has been taking regular jibes at the BJP by posting tweets that gave an indirect message to the party.

Here are Raut’s few such tweets that grabbed eyeballs:

Sanjay Raut’s latest tweet read: “Sometimes it’s good to walk out of a relationship, not out of arrogance, but out of self respect.”

Another tweet that took a jibe at the BJP said, “It’s better to be bad. Nobody valued/rewarded us when we were good.”

Few days after Raut underwent an angioplasty in Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital, he tweeted the word ‘agneepath’ (path of fire) three times, apparently to indicate difficult path ahead for his party in its efforts to form government in Maharashtra with the Congress and NCP, its political rivals till recently.

Raut posted a cryptic message on Twitter after the Supreme Court (SC) gave its landmark verdict in the Ayodhya Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case.Commenting on the verdict, the Sena leader threw a curveball saying, “First temple, then government. Temple in Ayodhya, the government in Maharashtra… Jai Shri Ram.”