Guwahati Even as the Maharashtra political crisis intensified on Saturday, the rebel faction led by leader Eknath Shinde named itself ‘Shiv Sena Balasaheb’, and warned of legal action on the part of Uddhav Thackeray, Shinde announced on Twitter. That he should free Shiv Sena from the clutches of MVA.
,Shiv Sena The workers should understand that I want to free Shiv Sena and its workers from the clutches of the MVA government and I am fighting for it. This fight is for the betterment of party workers.”
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Eknath Shinde The Shiv Sena claims to have the support of 38 of the 55 MLAs, which is more than two-thirds of the party’s strength in the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly. This means they can either quit and form another political party or merge with another without being disqualified from the state assembly.
According to the Tenth Schedule to the Constitution, which deals with the anti-defection law, any group of MPs can leave a party and form another or merge with another party without disqualification if they are at least one of the party’s members. At least two-thirds are MLAs. original power.
Meanwhile, the rebels Shiv Sena MLA Deepak Kesarkar claimed that his faction has a two-thirds majority, while he denied talks of merger with any party.
“We are still in Shiv Sena, there is a misunderstanding that we have left the party. We have just split our faction. We have two-thirds majority which we wanted. Our new leader is elected by majority. They were not more than 16-17 MLAs,” Kesarkar said.
“There is no need to merge, our faction will be given separate recognition and we are not merging with any other party. Our faction must be recognized, if it is not granted, we will go to court and Will prove our existence and numbers. We have numbers, but we respect CM Uddhav Thackeray, we will not speak against him. We should follow the path on which we fought assembly elections.”
Notably, Eknath Shinde was recently unanimously elected as the leader of the faction that is rebelling against the Uddhav faction.
The Uddhav Thackeray faction had recently filed a petition before the Deputy Speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly for the disqualification of 12 rebel MLAs.
As the rebels are camping in Guwahati, some of their offices in Maharashtra were allegedly ransacked by Shiv Sena workers.
Following this, Shinde on Saturday wrote to Uddhav Thackeray for allegedly “malicious” withdrawing the security of the family members of 38 MLAs who were camping with him at a hotel in Guwahati.
In his letter to Thackeray and state Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil, Shinde claimed that the security provided to the MLAs at their residence as well as to their family members as per protocol was illegally and illegally withdrawn. As an act of revenge.
“Needless to mention, this horrific move is another attempt to break our resolve and turn our hands to meet the demands of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Maha Vikas Aghadi government of Congress goons,” he said. “
The Eknath Shinde faction had earlier on Friday given notice of no-confidence motion against deputy speaker Narhari Jhirwal after the Uddhav Thackeray faction filed a petition before the deputy speaker seeking disqualification of 12 rebel MLAs. (ANI)