‘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.
Rajan Salvi was defeated in the 2024 Maharashtra assembly elections and lost to Eknath Shinde-led MLA Kiran Samant, from Rajapur assembly constituency in the coastal Konkan region.
M S Bhuvanachandran, founder of Shiv Sena’s Kerala unit, has left the party following disenchantment with the style of working of Uddhav Thackeray.
Shiv Sena (UBT) has unilaterally announced that the party will go solo in the upcoming nagar panchayat, nagar parishad, zilla parishad and municipal corporation elections. Party MP Sanjay Raut announced this here on Saturday.
Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut is well known for criticising the BJP and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis regularly, but he ended up praising Fadnavis on Friday in Mumbai, surprising several political observers.
The Election Commission on Monday allotted new names and symbol to the two factions of the erstwhile Shiv Sena, which split into Chief Minister Eknath Shinde group and ex-Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray group.
The EC froze Shiv Sena symbol and barred both the rival camps headed by Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde in the party from using the party name and symbol in the upcoming Assembly bypoll slated for November 3.
The Shiv Sena chief also challenged Home Minister Amit Shah to conduct Mumbai civic polls and assembly elections within a month.
Thackeray, accompanied by Lok Sabha MP Arvind Sawant and other senior party leaders met Raut's aged mother, wife Varsha, daughter and other family members at their home in 'Maitri' bungalow in Bhandup.
On Tuesday, 12 Lok Sabha MPs of Shinde faction met Birla, and requested him to recognise Shewale as the leader of the party in the House.
