The Shiv Sena has sent the names of four more rebel MLAs to the Maharashtra Assembly deputy speaker for initiating action of disqualification against them, a senior leader said on Friday evening. The party will also issue notices to 16 MLAs of the rebel faction and ask them to respond by Monday, said Sena MP Arvind Sawant here.
The four legislators whose names were forwarded to the deputy speaker were Sanjay Raymulkar, Chiman Patil, Ramesh Bornare and Balaji Kalyankar, he said. "Despite issuing a letter to them, none of them attended party meeting on Wednesday evening here in Mumbai," Sawant said.
The party has already given names of 12 MLAs to the deputy speaker including leader of the rebel camp Eknath Shinde, seeking their disqualification. "Now, only chief minister Uddhav Thackeray can decide about allowing their return to Sena, otherwise party doors are closed for them forever. They have betrayed the saffron flag," Sawant said.
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Striking a defiant note, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday night dared rebel leader Eknath Shinde and the BJP to try and take away the Shiv Sena cadre and those who vote for the party, and also accused the BJP of trying to finish off the Sena.
The Shiv Sena has sent the names of four more rebel MLAs to the Maharashtra Assembly deputy speaker for initiating action of disqualification against them, a senior leader said on Friday evening. Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant said that he party will also issue notices to 16 MLAs of the rebel faction and ask them to respond by Monday.
Shiv Sena leader Arvind Sawand said they met Maharashtra state assembly speaker & asked to initiate disqualification actions against 16 Rebelled Sena MLAs. He said these Sena MLAs will lose the Sena cover now. They will have to leave Sena's Bhagava permanently. @NewIndianXpress
— Sudhir Suryawanshi (@ss_suryawanshi) June 24, 2022
Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil on Friday said that the party has "nothing to do" with the problems faced by Shiv Sena due to revolt by a section of its MLAs.
Shiv Sena MLA Bhaskar Jadhav on Friday asked party leader Sanjay Raut to communicate with the rebel legislators instead of 'challenging' them.
"Assam has been defamed by your presence," Assam Congress chief Bhupen Kumar Borah said in a letter to Shinde. The Assam unit of the Congress on Friday staged demonstrations near the luxury hotel, demanding the rebel Sena leaders camped there leave the state as it is reeling under a devastating flood.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar & Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray meeting went for more than two hours at Matoshree. Amid political crisis, this meeting is very significant to fine tune the strategy. Meeting was attended by DCM Ajit Pawar, Jayant Patil & Praful Patel.
— Sudhir Suryawanshi (@ss_suryawanshi) June 24, 2022
CM Uddhav Thackeray is currently meeting NCP leaders, including party chief Sharad Pawar at his residence 'Matoshree'. State cabinet minister Jayant Patil and party leader Praful Patel are present, too.
#WATCH | Shiv Sena workers gather outside Matoshree (Thackeray residence) in Mumbai as a meeting between CM Uddhav Thackeray and NCP leaders, including party chief Sharad Pawar, gets underway. #MaharashtraCrisis pic.twitter.com/8CqYEumYTc
— ANI (@ANI) June 24, 2022
#WATCH | Maharashtra | Office of rebel MLA Mangesh Kudalkar in Kurla vandalised allegedly by Shiv Sena workers today pic.twitter.com/RhVYGJVw5X
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NCP chief Sharad Pawar will meet Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray at Matoshree. Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and NCP state president Jayant Patil will be also part of this meeting. @NewIndianXpress @TheMornStandard
— Sudhir Suryawanshi (@ss_suryawanshi) June 24, 2022
Biswa Sarma gave tongue-in-cheek comments when asked about the camping of Maharashtra's rebel Shiv Sena MLAs in his state: "We have spent so much money to promote tourism, (we say) visit Kamakhya, visit Kaziranga, now, should I stop those who have come to Assam?" he quipped. READ COPY HERE
Two pro-BJP independent legislators ---Yogesh Baldi and Vinod Agrawal --- in Maharashtra have objected to Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal's approval to the appointment of Shiv Sena MLA Ajay Chaudhary as the party's new group leader in the House. - PTI
CM Thackeray said he may have vacated the chief minister's official residence, but his determination is intact, in his virtual address today, to the party's district unit chiefs and 'sampark pramukhs' assembled at the Shiv Sena Bhavan at Dadar.
Deputy Speaker of Maharashtra Assembly approves Shiv Sena's proposal to appoint MLA Ajay Chaudhary as Shiv Sena legislative party leader in the state Assembly. A letter in this regard was sent to the Shiv Sena office secretary by the Deputy speaker's office pic.twitter.com/DiDYzp9tcG
— ANI (@ANI) June 24, 2022
#MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis | Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray reaches Shiv Sena Bhawan in Mumbai pic.twitter.com/e563y0QmGB
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#WATCH "...He (Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray) should also come to Assam for vacation," says Assam CM & BJP leader Himanata Biswa Sarma, in Delhi pic.twitter.com/vqtS5F6Jcr
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#WATCH Shiv Sena supporters throw black ink and eggs at a poster showing a picture of rebel MLA Eknath Shinde, also raise slogans against him, in Nashik pic.twitter.com/DUtKE2R2S5
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Between June 20 and 23, the departments issued as many as 182 government resolutions (GRs), while on June 17, they passed 107 such GRs. These orders can be seen on the government's official website. Technically, these are called government resolutions or GRs, which are essentially an approval order sanctioning the release of funds for development-related works. (READ FULL STORY HERE)
BJP MLC Pravin Darekar has written a letter to Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari demanding his intervention into the way the "MVA government in the state is suspiciously taking rapid decisions one after other pertaining to schemes, projects and giving contracts."
"Assam defamed by your presence considering Guwahati as a safe heaven for MLAs who have no respect for constitutional values and loyalty at all," said Assam Congress chief Bhupen Kumar Borah in his letter to Eknath Shinde.
Assam Congress chief Bhupen Kumar Borah writes to rebel Maharashtra Shiv Sena MLA Eknath Shinde and asks him to leave Assam at the earliest "in the interest of the state" pic.twitter.com/OajA322m6M
— ANI (@ANI) June 24, 2022
Mumbai | We will win on the Floor of the House, we won't give up. They (MLAs) have taken a very wrong step. We also gave them a chance to return to Mumbai. Now, we challenge them to come to Mumbai: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on rebel MLAs pic.twitter.com/d934TwAe1t
— ANI (@ANI) June 24, 2022
Mumbai | BJP leader Pravin Darekar and party leaders arrive at the residence of Devendra Fadnavis #MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis pic.twitter.com/mnP7tkHlfN
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Chandrakant Patil's remarks come a day after NCP chief Sharad Pawar asserted that the BJP has played a role in the crisis that has befallen the Uddhav Thackeray-led government. (READ FULL STORY HERE)
Guwahati | Police detain Sanjay Bhosale, deputy district chief of Shiv Sena from Maharashtra's Satara, who was present near Radisson Blu hotel to urge party MLAs lodged at the hotel to return to Maharashtra
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This is a sensitive area. Action will be taken as per law, say police. pic.twitter.com/eSdsB4oRL5
"No Central minister is giving threats. BJP is not trying to destabilise the government. This is an internal matter of the Shiv Sena. BJP is only in wait and watch position": MoS Railways and BJP leader Raosaheb Patil Danve.
"Uddhav Thackeray's time is up. Most MLAs will go with Eknath Shinde (rebel Shiv Sena MLA) and he will form government with BJP": Dr.Ramdas Athawale, MoS and President, Republican Party of India on the political situation in Maharashtra.
#MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis | Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut arrives at YB Chavan Centre, Mumbai to meet NCP chief Sharad Pawar pic.twitter.com/J96xHToNhA
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Given the sequence of events, it would appear the flight of pro-Eknath Shinde MLAs in Maharashtra to Gujarat was per a BJP script written in Delhi to be enacted in the party’s stronghold Surat and then in Guwahati. (READ FULL STORY HERE)
The meeting will be chaired by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at Shiv Sena Bhawan in Mumbai at 12 pm. (READ FULL STORY HERE)
In a series of tweets posted late Thursday night, Shinde who is camping in Guwahati along with 37 Sena legislators and 10 independents, said as per the 10th Schedule of the Constitution, a party whip is issued for the legislature proceedings and not for attending a meeting. (READ FULL STORY HERE)
Governor’s role comes into play if the rebel MLAs write to him withdrawing support to the MVA govt led by Uddhav Thackeray. The Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction can approach the Governor and claim the support of the BJP. Each defected MLA will have to hand in individual letters of support. (READ FULL STORY HERE)
It seems that the legacy of Bal Thackeray, who founded Shiv Sena, has slipped from the hands of Uddhav Thackeray with the rebellion of Eknath Shinde as he claim of being a true Shivsainik, the battle of who holds the true legacy of Balasaheb has started. (READ FULL STORY HERE)
