Meanwhile, the NCP expressed confidence that the crisis-ridden Government will survive. “The Government will survive. We will find some solution,” Patel told reporters. He said that since the party MLAs were talking to the NCP leadership and had “not walked out”, some solution appeared possible. At the same time, he said, “some commitments” that have been made to some legislators earlier have to be honoured. He, however, did not elaborate on the commitments.

In sharp contrast to the NCP’s optimism, Kamat commented that God would save his Government. “We are still negotiating. We will find some solution shortly,” Hari Prasad told The Indian Express on Friday evening. He, however, refused to discuss any details of negotiations.

Meanwhile, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi accused the “SEZ lobby” of creating political instability and dismissed suggestions that the party was ready to change the CM. “There is no question of compromising with immorality and illegality,” he said. “What is unconstitutional, illegal, immoral is the blatant way in which every five months a Government is sought to be destabilised,” Singhvi said.