The tussle to say the Shiv Sena reached the doorsteps of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday as 12 MPs of the Eknath Shinde faction met him to place forth their demand to simply accept their lawmakers as flooring chief and chief whip.
The MPs had a dialogue for an hour in Parliament concerning the calls for that they’d current to the Speaker earlier than assembly him.
A senior MP stated that they’ve requested the Speaker to nominate Rahul Shewale, Lok Sabha lawmaker from Mumbai South Central, as their chief of the Home and that Bhavana Gawali ought to stay the chief whip.
With Uddhav Thackeray eradicating the Shinde sympathisers from social gathering posts and in addition Gawli as chief whip, the rival faction has aggressively begun the method of seizing management of the social gathering in Parliament.
“We’re the unique Shiv Sena and have a majority of the MPs on our facet. For this reason we demand that our faction ought to lead the social gathering in Parliament. There are 12 MPs who’ve joined us and there are two extra prepared to come back,” stated a Sena lawmaker. The Shiv Sena has 19 MPs.
Responding as to whether just a few Rajya Sabha members might swap sides as nicely, one of many MPs stated that it appears unlikely for now.
When requested if they’ve given the letter with their calls for to the Speaker, one other MP stated, “It should be within the dispatch or could have reached the Speaker however we didn’t meet him to provide the letter.”
Sources within the social gathering stated that there’s additionally a dialogue on a few of the Shinde camp MPs being included within the Modi cupboard quickly.
The transfer is on anticipated traces as just a few MPs together with Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde’s son, Shrikant Shinde, signalled a cut up amongst social gathering leaders holding public workplaces. This was when round 29 MLAs had joined Shinde not too long ago, ensuing within the fall of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities.
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