Two days before Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde rebelled against the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, state cabinet minister and CM Uddhav Thackeray’s son Aaditya Thackeray and party MP Sanjay Raut had a heated argument at a hotel in Powai, where party MLAs Were. Registered before the Legislative Council election.
A report in The Indian Express quoted a source as saying that the argument was about giving extra votes to the ally Congress, which Shinde was opposing.
One of the Congress candidates, Bhai Jagtap, won the election, while the other candidate, Chandrakant Handore, was not elected.
“Two days ago, when talks were taking place at Renaissance Hotel about how the votes were to be used for the council elections, Shinde had a disagreement with Raut and Aditya. Shinde was not amenable to the idea of using the votes of Shiv Sena MLAs to elect Congress candidates as MLCs,” the source reportedly said.
“It turned into a heated argument between the two sides,” he said. Now looking back, it looks like it could have been a deciding factor (for the rebellion),” the source said.
Shinde was unhappy with the political developments in the past few months and the source said the chief minister must have been alerted about it too.
The Congress had fielded two candidates in the recently held MLC elections despite having the numbers to ensure victory of only one. Handore was named as the first candidate in the list released by the Congress and many believed that he would win while Bhai Jagtap, the candidate of the second party, would face a tough fight as he needed votes from party allies to win. will be required.
However, Jagtap emerged victorious while Handore lost. BJP has won five seats while Shiv Sena NCP has won two seats each.
Presently, Eknath Shinde is in Guwahati in BJP-ruled Assam, where he reached this morning and claimed that he has the support of 40 MLAs of his party and 10 other MLAs are going to join him.
Shinde had said that he was not parting ways with Shiv Sena and would carry forward the ideology of Balasaheb Thackeray.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said that Shinde is not leading the party and added that the two leaders have been working together for 35 years. Raut claimed that the reports of Shinde breaking up with the party were baseless.
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