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Last Update: March 01, 2023, 17:53 IST
Eknath Shinde (R) and Uddhav Thackeray. (Image: News18 creative using PTI photos)
On the first day of the budget session, Eknath Shinde wrote to Legislative Council deputy speaker Neelam Gorhe to appoint Viplav Bajoria as the party whip, with the intention of wresting control over 10 other Shiv Sena MLCs, including Uddhav Thackeray. , To counter this, Uddhav wrote to Gorhe requesting him to appoint Vilas Potnis as a whip.
In its first budget session, the Eknath Shinde government of Maharashtra could have to face opposition on various issues like law and order, farmers’ problems etc. But the first week has once again passed in a tussle between the Shiv Sena. Now controlled by the camp of Shinde and its former chief Uddhav Thackeray.
After getting the name and symbol of the party, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shinde now wants to control the Shiv Sena in both the Houses of the Maharashtra Legislature. While he has a higher number in the lower house, he is fighting for control of the party in the upper house, where Uddhav has more MLAs and Shinde has just one MLC.
On the first day of the budget session, the CM wrote to Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Council, Neelam Gorhe, to appoint Viplav Bajoria as the party whip, with the intention of gaining control over 10 other Shiv Sena MLCs, including Uddhav Thackeray. , To counter this, Uddhav wrote to Gorhe requesting him to appoint Vilas Potnis as a whip. The Deputy Speaker has said that no decision has been taken in this matter yet.
After Election The commission gave the Shiv Sena name and the bow-and-arrow party symbol to the Shinde-led faction that rebelled against Thackeray and replaced him as chief minister, joined hands with the BJP last year, the Shiv Sena continues to claim to represent to all party leaders irrespective of their factional loyalties.
Sources say that there is still no clarity on whether the Uddhav faction has been recognized as a separate group by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council.
Speaking to the media ahead of the assembly session, Lower House Speaker Rahul Narvekar said that Shiv Sena is only one and no other faction has submitted any application for recognition as a separate group.
Viplav Bajoria told News18 in the assembly premises, ‘Every party chief has the right to nominate the chief whip and whip of the party. Uddhav Thackeray gave the letter after Chief Minister Shinde gave it. Why didn’t he submit that letter earlier? All those who won on the election symbol of bow and arrow are Shiv Sena leaders. The Election Commission has given Eknath Shinde i.e. us the name and symbol of the party. So if the whip is issued, it is mandatory for all MLCs of Shiv Sena.”
Although Shinde does not have a majority in the upper house of the assembly, Bajoria is confident that his party will have the numbers there as he is already in talks with members of the Uddhav camp in the Legislative Council.
Manisha Kayande, leader of the Uddhav camp and a member of the state legislative council, told News18, “The Supreme Court has given us protection and the Shiv Sena has given an undertaking that they will not issue a whip. So let’s wait till the next order of the Supreme Court in this regard.”
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