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BJP leadership makes Devendra Fadnavis accept ‘demotion’ At a press conference prior to the swearing-in ceremony, Mr. Fadnavis announced that the BJP would support Mr. Shinde as Chief Minister and claimed that he would not be the part of the Cabinet. Hours after his announcement, sensing discontent within the State unit of the party, BJP national president J.P. Nadda said the party had taken a decision to support Mr. Shinde, and Mr. Fadnavis too would join the government. Union Home Minister Amit Shah too tweeted saying that Mr. Fadnavis would join the government. Mr. Fadnavis replied to him saying he would follow the orders as an honest party worker. “I will obey the order of a party which gave me the top most post,” he tweeted. Invokes Bal Thackeray Initially, only two chairs were kept at the Darbar Hall where the swearing-in ceremony took place. Following tweets from the BJP’s central leadership, three chairs were placed. Mr. Shinde took the oath invoking Sena founder the late Bal Thackeray and his mentor the late Anand Dighe. This was followed by sloganeering from his supporters. Mr. Fadnavis too was greeted by loud sloganeering as he asked people to remain calm to continue with the oath taking. Following the ceremony, slogans of ‘Jai Shree Ram, Bharat Mata ki Jai’ and praising King Shivaji were shouted by supporters of both the leaders. Mr. Shinde, who revolted against former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on June 20, was joined by around 39 Sena MLAs and 11 independ...

June 21, 2022: Eknath Shinde, along with 10-12 MLAs went ‘out of reach’ and holed up at a hotel in Surat, Gujarat, a BJP-ruled state. June 24: The Uddhav faction filed a petition against rebel MLAs who were part of Eknath Shinde's camp and demanded that Deputy Speaker Narahari Zirwal of the Maharashtra Assembly disqualify 16 MLAs of the Shinde camp. Zirwal met with Shiv Sena leaders and later also met with the Advocate-General of Maharashtra for legal opinion. June 30: Amid speculations that former Maharashtra Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis will assume the CM's seat again, Eknath Shinde made a surprise announcement and said he would become Maharashtra CM. Fadnavis was sworn in as Shinde's deputy. A two-day special session of the Maharashtra Assembly was called on July 3-4 to elect a new Speaker and to conduct a floor test for Shinde. ALSO READ | July 3: First-time legislator Rahul Narwekar of BJP was elected as the Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He polled 164 votes against his opponent Rajan from Shiv Sena who got 107 votes. July 4: Shinde won the floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly with 164 votes polled in favour of him, while 99 members voted against him. Since the swearing in of Shinde and the floor test, the two factions of Shiv Sena started engaging in a war of words with a legal battle looming. The Supreme Court was to hear pleas on the disqualification of rebel MLAs and on the appointment of Eknath Shinde as chief minister. A pe...

Image Source : INDIA TV Shinde-led Shiv Sena advertisement Shinde-led Shiv Sena advertisement: A poster war has erupted in Maharashtra after Chief Minister-led Shiv Sena claimed that Eknath Shinde is the preferred person for the state's top post, claims an ad which was put out by the ruling party. In the full-page advertisement placed in many newspapers, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena has demanded Narendra Modi in the Centre and Eknath Shinde for Maharashtra's top job. And has also claimed that Eknath Shinde is preferred more as CM rather than The ad may further widen the gap between the Shiv Sena and BJP, which according to reports, are going through a rough patch after Eknath Shinde son's fiasco. The Shiv Sena MP hit out at the BJP leaders in the state's Dombivil unit and said there are some leaders who are trying to create obstacles for the BJP-Shinde faction for their "selfish politics." The advertisement carries Sena’s bow-and-arrow symbol and images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and CM Shinde. It has no image or photo of Shiv Sena founder late Balasaheb Thackeray, a noticeable departure going by its earlier publicity materials. “…For the chief minister’s position, 26.1 per cent of the people in Maharashtra desire Eknath Shinde and 23.2 per cent of the people wish to see Devendra Fadnavis as the next chief minister,” reads the advertisement. Thus, it is undeniable proof that 49.3 per cent of the people in Maharashtra wish to see a strong alliance between BJP and Sh...

Uddhav gets flaming torch symbol, party to be called 'Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)' Meanwhile, the Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena faction will be called Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and its symbol will be a flaming torch. Uddhav camp MP Arvind Savant said that his group is happy over the Election Commission's thumps up to the flaming torch symbol and the party's name. He also alleged that the Shinde faction was copying their symbols and names. Another Thackeray loyalist, Bhaskar Jadhav said, "We are happy that the three names that matter to us most Uddhav ji, Balasaheb and Thackeray - are retained in the new name." On Saturday, the EC had barred both Shiv Sena factions from using the party name and its election symbol in the November 3 Andheri East assembly bypolls. In an interim order over the claims by the rival factions for control of the organisation, the Commission asked them to suggest by Monday three different name choices and also as many free symbols for allocation to their respective groups. They will both not be able to use the original Shiv Sena symbol - the bow and arrow. Eknath Shinde had rebelled against Uddhav Thackeray's leadership, claiming the support of 40 of the Shiv Sena's 55 MLAs and 12 of its 18 members in the Lok Sabha.

Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) MP Shrikant Shinde addresses the media at Balasaheb Bhavan, in Mumbai.(PTI file photo) Shrikant’s statement came after the local BJP workers blamed the Sena MP for falsely framing BJP’s Dombivli East Mandal president Nandu Joshi in a molestation case. Alleging that the motive behind the act was to settle political scores, the BJP workers passed a resolution Wednesday to not support the Shinde camp in the polls. Also Read: Cause of rift Amid the protest by the BJP leaders, Shrikant also announced that the Shinde faction would fight the Lok Sabha seats the party won in the 2019 election, further escalating the conflict. Following the BJP leaders’ protest seeking the transfer of police inspector Shekhar Bagade, who lodged an FIR against Joshi allegedly “on the instructions” of the Lok Sabha member, Shrikant Shinde offered to resign. Who is Shrikant Shinde? 1) Also Read: 2)The orthopaedic surgeon-turned-politician is reportedly being nurtured as the party’s youth face and as the Shinde faction’s answer to Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray ahead of the long-due civic polls to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and assembly election. 3)The two-term MP from Kalyan has emerged as a powerful leader of the Shinde scion, seen as number two in the party within the political circles as he handles the organisational matters and political management of the party. 4)The 36-year-old leader has also been 5)In February, a controversy emerged involving Shrik...

IMAGE: The advertisement claimed that 26.1% of the people in Maharashtra desire Eknath Shinde as the CM while and 23.2% voted for Devendra Fadnavis. Photograph: ANI Photo While the advertisement's tagline was "Modi for India, Shinde for Maharashtra", the chief minister sought to downplay it, saying both he and BJP leader Fadnavis were "in people's minds" and working together. Shiv Sena minister Shambhuraj Desai said, "Our party has nothing to do with the advertisement. It may have been issued by a well-wisher of our party, Shinde and Fadnavis." The advertisement did not carry the pictures of either Fadnavis or Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray. Shinde, who split the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena last year and became chief minister, has always maintained that his Sena faction represents Bal Thackeray's vision and ideology. As much as 26.1 per cent of people in Maharashtra want Eknath Shinde as chief minister while 23.2 per cent wish to see Fadnavis as the next chief minister, the advertisement claimed. Thus, 49.3 per cent of people in Maharashtra supported the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance, it said, citing a survey conducted by Zee TV-Matrize. Further, 30.2 per cent citizens of Maharashtra prefer the Bharatiya Janata Party while 16.2 per cent prefer the Shiv Sena (led by Eknath Shinde), which means a total of 46.4 per cent of people trust the alliance for development of the state, the advertisement said. Reacting to the advertisement, Sanjay Raut of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sh...