Maharashtra Political Crisis: Who is Eknath Shinde?
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- The Shiv Sena leader enjoys popular support and is responsible for organizing big events of the party.
- Eknath Shinde is a big name in Thane
- He recently visited Ayodhya with Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray.
Maharashtra Political Crisis: Eknath Shinde, the current urban affairs minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, has gone incommunicado. This comes a day after the ruling MVA suffered a setback by losing one of the six seats in the state legislative council elections.
Shiv Sena’s top leader Shinde is a big name in Thane. Not only in Thane, Shinde is responsible for strengthening the party in many other places as well.
Shiv Sena MLA recently went on a Ayodhya tour with Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray.
He was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for four consecutive terms – in 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019. After the 2014 victory, he was elected as the Leader of the Legislature Party of Shiv Sena and later the Leader of the Opposition. Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
The Shiv Sena leader enjoys popular support and is responsible for organizing big events of the party.
His son Shrikant Shinde is a Lok Sabha MP and his brother Prakash Shinde is a corporator.
Meanwhile, it is believed that some Shiv Sena MLAs are in touch with Shinde.
However, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said that Shiv Sena is a party of loyalists and like Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, BJP’s efforts to topple the MVA government will not succeed.