Maharashtra crisis LIVE: Shinde camp to hold strategy meeting in Assam; Shiv Sena’s big meet today in Mumbai
Thackeray, meanwhile, has upped the ante and said those who want to leave can do so and also tore into the BJP, saying it wants to ‘finish off Shiv Sena’.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has called a meeting of the party’s national executive committee today at 1 pm. The meeting will be held in Shiv Sena Bhavan in which the Chief Minister will join virtually. Earlier on Friday, Thackeray convened a meeting of the district chiefs virtually wherein he said that the rebel MLAs who are camping in Guwahati want to “break the party”.
Targetting Shinde, Thackeray said that he did everything for the rebel leader and yet a lot of allegations are levelled against him. Notably, the Shiv Sena has sent the names of four more rebel MLAs to the Maharashtra Assembly deputy speaker for initiating action of disqualification against them. The party will also issue notices to 16 MLAs of the rebel faction and ask them to respond by Monday. The party has already given names of 12 MLAs to the deputy speaker including leader of the rebel camp Eknath Shinde, seeking their disqualification. However, the Ekanth Shinde faction has given a notice of no-confidence motion against the deputy speaker.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut makes veiled attack at rebel MLAs on Twitter
In a tweet, Raut shared a picture of quote from author Rudyard Kipling which read, “Beware of overconcern for money, or position or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.”
Fate of 16 rebel Shiv Sena MLAs to be decided today?
A decision will be taken today at the national executive meeting. Deputy Speaker of Legislative Assembly Narhari Jirwal might issue notice to 16 rebel MLAs of Shiv Sena on suspension of their membership. Although the Shinde faction is prepared for this, they have already prepared a legal team to challenge this possible suspension. BJP is likely to support from behind the scenes in any such scenario. But if suspension happens, the Maharashtra drama may drag on for a long time.
Here are the names of 16 MLAs
Eknath Shinde
Tanaji Sawant
Prakash Surve
Yamini Jadhav
Bharat Gogavale
Abdul Sattar
Balaji Kalyankar
Anil Babar
Lata Sonawane
Sanjay Shirsath
Sandipan Bhumre
Mahesh Shinde
Prakash Abitkar
Sanjay Raymulkar
Balaji Kinikar
Ramesh Bornare
- Reports Rajiv Singh (India TV)
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