‘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.
Thackeray said that the election panel should be dissolved while the matter is going on in the Supreme Court.
Four days after losing the original 'Shiv Sena' name and 'Bow-and-Arrow' symbol, Shiv Sena (UBT) President Uddhav Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar reportedly had a brief telephonic discussion on the prevalent political situation, according to sources.
The Commission observed in its order that the current constitution of the Shiv Sena party is undemocratic and has been "mutilated to undemocratically appoint people from a coterie as office bearers without any election at all".
Telling the court as a matter of constitutional principle, a constitutional authority continues to function as a constitutional authority and if members are disqualified then they have judicial remedies.
Sibal said that matters need to be heard by a seven-judge constitution bench as it requires a revisit of the 2016 judgement in Nabam Rebia case relating to the political crisis in Manipur.
