Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has called a meeting of Shiv Sena MPs today. The main agenda of the meeting is to discuss whether to support someone in the presidential election. However, this meeting is considered very important amidst discussions of many Shiv Sena MPs going with the Shinde faction. Therefore, all eyes are on the number of MPs attending the meeting. Also on whom Shiv Sena supports in the upcoming presidential election.
The meeting will be held in Uddhav Thackeray’s private residence Matoshree from noon, so far only ten to twelve MPs out of 19 have reached. The rest is awaited. The MPs who attended the meeting include Gajanan Kirtikar, Arvind Sawant, Vinayak Raut, Dhairysheel Mane, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Hemant Godse and Sanjay Raut.
Let us tell you that, Shiv Sena MP Rahul Shewale has written a letter to Uddhav Thackeray urging him to support Draupadi Murmu for the post of President. But in the past, Shiv Sena had snapped ties with the NDA and supported the candidatures of Pratibha Patil and Pranab Mukherjee (both Congress leaders). Shiv Sena left NDA in 2019 and formed government in Maharashtra along with Congress and NCP.