Over-40 Club For Rebels, Uddhav Thackeray Cornered: 10 Facts

Eknath Shinde has already reached the crucial variety of MLAs, 37, required to separate the get together within the meeting with out falling foul of the anti-defection legislation. With two extra Sena MLAs, he could have 39. His whole power is now 42, together with Impartial MLAs.  

Two extra Shiv Sena MLAs — considered one of them Uddhav Thackeray’s emissary in Surat — will attain Guwahati at present to affix the rebels, sources have stated.

The Shiv Sena will file an attraction at present with the Maharashtra Meeting Deputy Speaker searching for disqualification of round 15 insurgent MLAs, stated sources within the Maharashtra authorities’s authorized workforce.

Earlier at present, the Shiv Sena stated it might think about exiting the Maharashtra alliance with Sharad Pawar’s NCP and Congress however provided that the rebels return “in 24 hours” – an enormous climbdown because the insurgent group gained numbers.

The BJP has denied the accusation of engineering an “Operation Lotus” in Maharashtra. Movies from the Guwahati resort the place the rebels are staying, nonetheless, confirmed a BJP minister of Assam standing with the group. Earlier than the MLAs moved in, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was additionally seen on the resort.

After holding inside conferences, the Congress and Sharad Pawar’s get together — alliance companions of Shiv Sena in Maharashtra – stated they had been with Mr Thackeray.  “We’ll struggle collectively. The MVA will keep collectively,” senior Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge stated.

Veteran politician Sharad Pawar — who crafted the MVA alliance and whose Nationalist Congress Get together is a part of the federal government — expressed confidence at present that the federal government will survive. “A flooring take a look at will resolve who has majority,” Mr Pawar advised reporters.

Eknath Shinde has demanded the Sena break its alliance with the Congress and the NCP, saying it as diluting its Hindutva ideology and that the get together leaders suffered probably the most within the final two-and-a-half years of the coalition’s rule.

The insurgent MLAs have additionally accused the Maharashtra Chief Minister of shutting his doorways to them. “We had been denied entry to the Chief Minister’s home for two.5 years,” wrote Sanjay Shirsat, one of many MLAs in Guwahati with the rebels.

Uddhav Thackeray is diminished to a minority chief within the get together based and led for many years by his father, Bal Thackeray. In an emotional message to the rebels on Wednesday, he stated, “If my very own individuals don’t desire me as Chief Minister, he ought to stroll as much as me and say so… I am able to resign… I’m Balasaheb’s son, I’m not after a publish”.