Shiv Sena MLAs want party chief Uddhav Thackeray to be chief minister, said a party legislator in Mumbai on Friday.

'We want Uddhavji to be the chief minister. But his word would be final and binding on all of us,' Sena MLA Bhaskar Jadhav told PTI.

Thackeray held a meeting with his party's legislators and told them that the process to form a Sena-led dispensation in the state was in the final stages. He was apprising them of the government formation process and also of meetings of the Congress-NCP leaders in Delhi, Jadhav said.

'Uddhavji met and told us that the process of formation of Sena-led government is in the final stages,' he said.

'The legislators have fully endorsed the party's efforts to stitch up an alliance with the Congress and the NCP to form the next government in the state,' Jadhav said.

Thackeray rejected speculation that the BJP was in touch with him and had offered the chief minister's post to the Shiv Sena, according to Jadhav.

'Till today, I haven't got any call from the top BJP leadership. This is nothing but a ploy to malign the image of the Shiv Sena,' he quoted the Sena president as saying.

Thackeray instructed the MLAs to stay together in Mumbai as they may be required any time, he said.

Sena MLA Prakash Surve told reporters that the government will be formed in two to three days and the next chief minister will be from the Shiv Sena.

'Uddhavji is concerned about the plight of farmers,' he said.

Sena MLA Sunil Prabhu said all the party MLAs have been asked to stay together, while another legislator, Uday Samant, said no one can poach the Sena lawmakers.

'We are together in Mumbai due to the fast-changing political developments in the state,' he added.

Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik said the state will soon have a government headed by a Sena chief minister.

'We want Uddhavji to become the chief minister and we have put our demands across to him.' he said.

A meeting of the leaders of Sena, NCP and Congress is scheduled to take place later on Friday, following which the three parties are expected to stake claim to form the new government in Maharashtra.