Eknath Shinde tweeted that he would never cheat for power.
Mumbai:
Amid the ongoing political developments in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena on Tuesday sacked Eknath Shinde as the party’s chief whip after he reportedly moved to a Surat hotel in Gujarat, along with 21 other MLAs.
Ajay Chaudhary, Shiv Sena MLA from Sewri, has replaced Eknath Shinde as the new Legislative Party Leader, party sources have said.
Around the same time, Eknath Shinde tweeted that he would never cheat for power.
“Balasaheb has taught us Hindutva. We have never and will never cheat for power regarding Balasaheb’s thoughts and Dharmaveer Anand Dighe Saheb’s teachings,” he said in the tweet.
The crisis unfolded in the state a day after the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance – comprising the Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress – suffered a setback in the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls.
In the polls, the BJP managed to win all the five seats it had contested though it had votes to win four candidates. The Sena and NCP won two seats each, while Congress suffered a jolt as one of its two nominees lost.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut this morning said there is a conspiracy to topple the Uddhav Thackeray government in the “same pattern as in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan”. “Shiv Sena is a party of loyalists. We won’t let that happen,” he said.
Leaders of NCP and Congress have asserted that there is no threat to the stability of the state government.
