Two suspected turncoat Shiv Sena MLAs made a dramatic escape from the rebels' camp - led by senior Minister Eknath Shinde and others who had pitched a tent in a five-star hotel in Surat, Gujarat - and reached Maharashtra safely in the past 24 hours. The Sena MLAs who 'escaped' are: Kailas Patil from Osmanabad and Nitin Deshmukh from Akola, who claimed they were "misled and
Mumbai/Guwahati, June 22 (PTI): Faced with revolt by its senior member and Maharashtra Minister Eknath Shinde, the ruling Shiv Sena on Wednesday hinted at dissolution of the Assembly, while epicentre of the high voltage political drama gripping the state shifted from Surat to Guwahati in Assam, where the rebel leader and party MLAs backing him were flown in the wee hours. With Shinde, who has claimed the support of 46 MLAs, showing no signs of backing down from his rebellion, which has pushed the two-and-a-half-year old Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) governemnt to the brink, party MP Sanjay Raut on said the ongoing political developments in Maharashtra could lead to dissolution of the state Assembly. “The political developments in Maharashtra are headed towards dissolution of the state Assembly,” tweeted Raut, a close aide of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. Later, when asked to elaborate on the tweet, Raut, who is the Shiv Sena’s chief spokesperson, said, When
In what seems to be an apparent bid to topple the Maha Vikas Aghadi government (MVA) in Maharashtra, dissident legislators of Shiv Sena, which heads the ruling coalition, left for Surat on Tuesday, where they had camped for the day, before flying to Guwahati in a chartered aircraft.
Shiv Sena legislator Nitin Deshmukh, who had accompanied party rebel Eknath Shinde to Surat, on Wednesday claimed that some people had forcibly admitted him to a hospital there and he was administered injections.