Maharashtra Speaker also held that the then Chief Whip Sunil Prabhu ceased to hold the post and the new Chief Whip Bharat Gogawale was the validly elected Chief Whip
Two rival factions of Sena had filed disqualification pleas against each other after Shinde and 39 MLAs broke away from the original party last year. The breakaway faction under Shinde then tied up with the BJP to form a new government in June 2022.
Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar has decided to conduct official hearing on disqualification petitions against the MLAs of the Shinde group on October 13.
Addressing Shiv Sena (UBT) workers, Thackeray slammed "government brutality" of police baton charging the protestors seeking reservation for Marathas in Jalna
Uddhav Thackeray asserted the INDIA bloc will fight and defeat "mitra parivarvad", an oblique reference to crony capitalism, in the country as the opposition grouping wrapped up its two-day conclave in Mumbai.
Speaking to reporters after tying 'rakhi' to former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray at his residence on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan, Mamata Banerjee said, "Hoga hoga, khela hoga"
Ajit Pawar and eight MLAs had joined the Eknath Shinde government, which also has the Bharatiya Janata Party, on July 2, in the process causing a vertical split in the NCP.
The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party said Uddhav Thackeray should be complimented for meeting Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar, his former ally.
SC issued a notice on a plea filed by Uddhav Thackeray faction against the delay by the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker in deciding the disqualification petitions filed against CM Eknath Shinde.
The plea contended that all the movable and immovable assets of Shiv Sena along with frontal and aligning organisations be transferred to the new party president as per the order of EC
