Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Wednesday alleged that the BJP’s central leadership pressured Eknath Shinde to give up his claim on the chief minister’s post. Addressing a press conference soon after Shinde made it clear that the top BJP leadership’s decision on the next Maharashtra chief minister would be acceptable to him, Patole said it was suspicious that so much time was being taken to form the next govt despite the Mahayuti alliance getting a huge mandate. TNN