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Tuesday, Aug 5, 2025
Despite the rebellion, Shiv Sena maintains that the party remains under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray who was elected as the President of the party way back on January 23, 2018.
The Mamata Banerjee-led party said people's mandate was insulted in Maharashtra as the BJP resorted to horse-trading to bring down a democratically elected government.
The BJP leader has established his credentials as an astute politician, who has hold over the party and state machinery. He led BJP to major wins in the recent RS and Legislative Council elections.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said after coming to power at the Centre in 2014, the focus of the BJP has been to capture power in the states and bring down elected govts rather than serve the people.
After managing to take away majority of Sena MLAs with him and becoming chief minister, Shinde's next challenge would be to wrest control the party organization from Uddhav Thackeray and his loyalists.
It was ten days ago that the rebel Shiv Sena leader raised a banner of revolt that culminated in the fall of Maharashtra's Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government led by Uddhav Thackeray.
The hotel has been converted into a high-security zone with vehicles and people entering there being checked thoroughly at the entry gate.
Thackeray chaired a cabinet meeting here while the hearing on his government's petition challenging the governor's directive to conduct a floor test to prove majority was underway.
The decision on the emotive issue of renaming of the historical central Maharashtra city of Aurangabad came even as the Shiv Sena, which heads the ruling MVA coalition, is facing a rebellion by majority of its MLAs.
With this, the two-and-half-year-old, three-party Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress government experiment collapsed, barely hours after Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari ordered a floor test.
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