According to sources Shiv Sena had proposed the proposal to BJP Working President JP Nadda to make Gadkari as the CM of Maharashtra for 2.5 years, but the BJP top leadership did not agree to it .
When Shiv Sena was adamant on sharing its power and stubbornly making the Shiv Sena chief minister for two and a half years, the BJP strategists persuaded Uddhav Thackeray Assigned responsibility to Nitin Gadkari.