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Maha crisis highlights: CM Thackeray arrives at his family home 'Matoshree'
The BJP and the Shiv Sena used to be allies until 2019 when after contesting the Maharashtra Assembly elections together both parted ways over the issue of the chief ministerial post.
Maharashtra political crisis: Amid the intensifying political crisis in Maharashtra, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray said he was keeping the resignation letter ready, but urged the rebel MLAs to come and tell him on his face that they did not have the trust in him. Thackeray, who addressed the state through Facebook, said Shiv Sena will never leave the Hindutva and that is what Balasaheb Thackeray had taught us. Read more...Read More
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Stating that he is not afraid of any challenge as long as the common Shiv Sainiks are with him, Thackeray said what upset him was the fact that it was not the Congress or NCP that lost trust in him.
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There had been a strong buzz that Thackeray, who tested positive for Covid-19 earlier in the day, might put in his papers as the deepening turmoil following the flight of rebel Sena leader Eknath Shinde with more than 30 legislators to Assam where the BJP is in power. The rebel camp had left Maharashtra a day ago for another BJP-ruled state, Gujarat, where it stayed for about a day in Surat.
A total of 40 Shiv Sena MLAs are present here: Eknath Shinde
"A total of 40 Shiv Sena MLAs are present here. We will carry Balasaheb Thackeray's Hindutva," said Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde told news agency ANI after arriving in Guwahati, Assam.
Top ten updates on the political crisis in Maha
Maharashtra leader Eknath Shinde - at the centre of fresh political crisis in the state - has gone to Assam’s Guwahati from Gujarat’s Surat, reports said, where he had been camping with more than a dozen lawmakers, who are said to have rebelled against the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition government. With Shinde’s fresh move, the political drama in Maharashtra has further intensified after Tuesday saw a flurry of urgent political huddles to settle the crisis at hand.
We haven't left Balasaheb Thackeray's Shiv Sena, says Eknath Shinde
Speaking to media persons at the Surat airport before leaving for Guwahati, the Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde said that they have been following Balasaheb Thackeray's Hindutva and will carry it further.
"We have not left Balasaheb Thackeray's Shiv Sena and will not leave it. We have been following Balasaheb's Hindutva and will carry it further," he said.
Sena MLAs leave Surat hotel, being taken to Guwahati: Sources
Nearly 30 rebel MLAs of Shiv Sena along with their leader Eknath Shinde have left their hotel here and are now being flown to Guwahati in Assam, sources said.
Maharashtra rebel minister Eknath Shinde along with nearly 30 rebel Shiv Sena MLAs were staying at a hotel on Dumas road in Surat city of Gujarat upon their arrival here on Monday night.
Now, due to some undisclosed reasons, they are being shifted to Guwahati in Assam by air.
