‘Operation Tiger’ Draws Blood As More Uddhav Thackerey Men Defect
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena continues to bleed due to 'Operation Tiger' after Sindhudurg district Sena chief Sanjay Padte resigned from his post on Tuesday.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena continues to bleed due to 'Operation Tiger' after Sindhudurg district Sena chief Sanjay Padte resigned from his post on Tuesday.
BJP Member of Legislative Council (MLC) Pravin Darekar, who is known to be a confidante of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, said in Mumbai on Friday that not a single MLA will be left in Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, if Aaditya Thackeray begins to monitor the movements of his MPs and MLAs, to prevent them from defecting.
Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Saturday said if INDIA bloc partners -- the Congress and the AAP -- had allied, the outcome of the Delhi assembly elections would have been very different.
Hundreds of local-level workers from the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and Congress, along with prominent Thackeray-led Sena leaders from Washim, Karanja, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, Akola, Bhiwandi, and Kalyan, joined the Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena party in the presence of Shinde himself, on Friday, giving a fillip to 'Operation Tiger'.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray on his birth anniversary, saying he was uncompromising when it came to his core beliefs and always contributed towards enhancing the pride of Indian culture
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the Thackeray group, told the bench that on August 3, the apex court had orally asked the poll panel to not take any precipitative action on the issue.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it may list tomorrow for hearing the cases filed by rival groups of Shiv Sena ( Eknath Shinde group) in relation to the Maharashtra political crisis.
Indicating differences in the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance, the Congress has indirectly targeted ally Shiv Sena by demanding a CBI probe into Mumbai road contracts between 2017-2022, ahead of the civic elections.
Patole gave a severe warning mentioning that the alliance with Sena is "not natural and permanent", and further expressed that the ties were made "in a different situation".
ED had interrogated the MP's wife, Varsha Raut for around 10 hours on Saturday in the same case in which it had earlier arrested his close associate, Pravin Raut.
