The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred to January 22 the hearing on a plea of the Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena against the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker’s order declaring the Sena bloc led by CM Eknath Shinde as “real political party” after its split in June 2022. The plea, which was filed on Monday by … Read more
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Lok Sabha Secretariat has allotted the Shiv Sena office in Parliament House to the Eknath Shinde-led faction after the Election Commission’s decision to recognise the group as the real Shiv Sena. Also read: Supreme Court urgently lists Uddhav Thackeray’s plea to stay EC order … Read more
There is a party that is more than 50 years old and some of whose MLAs and MPs defected under pressure, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut said while referring to Shiv Sena. File | Photo Credit: PTI Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on February 18 slammed the Election Commission (EC) for … Read more
Amid the controversy over which faction controls and heads ‘real’ Shiv Sena, the faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday announced the appointment of executive committee members of the Yuva Sena, the party’s youth wing. Currently, former State Minister Aaditya Thackeray, son of Uddhav Thackeray who heads the other faction of the party, … Read more