Maha Dy CM Shinde meets Modi, Shah, others in Delhi
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Thursday for an hour, sources said.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Thursday for an hour, sources said.
In an apparent attack at the Uddhav Thackeray faction, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who arrived in Ayodhya on Sunday, said that "some people" are allergic to Hindutva, saying only PM Modi has fulfilled Balasaheb Thackeray's dream of Ram Mandir.
This follows the EC's decision to put an interim ban on the use of the Shiv Sena's name and its symbol, bow and arrow, in the upcoming Andheri assembly by-election, which is why new names and symbols are being allotted to both the factions.
A five-judge constitution bench, headed by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, said there will be no stay on proceedings before the EC to decide intra-party dispute in Shiv Sena between Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde faction, on which one is the original party and also on getting the party symbol.
A bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and comprising Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli asked the Election Commission not to take any precipitative action on the claim raised by Shinde group for recognising them as the real Shiv Sena party in the meanwhile.
The faction had further sought removal of Eknath Shinde, Gulabrao Patil, Tanji Sawant, and Uday Samant from party posts.
The MPs, who have been in touch with the rival camp, have claimed that they would be safe with the Shinde-led party faction supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party
In an emotionally charged speech, Shinde also mentioned how he never was there when his family needed him and devoted his entire life for politics.
The floor test sealed his position as Maharashtra's 20th CM and is the big legislative victory for the Shinde government who was sworn-in on June 30 as CM along with Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, of the BJP.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray's son and MNS president Amit Thackeray also slammed the Shinde-Fadnavis camp for the decision and said that he was shocked by the decision.
