A day after media reported that Maharashtra chief Minister Eknath Shide is planning to build a new Shiv Sena Bhavan in Dadar, Sena rebel MLA Uday Samant refuted the reports.
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde
A day after media reported that Maharashtra chief Minister Eknath Shide is planning to build a new Shiv Sena Bhavan in Dadar, Sena rebel MLA Uday Samant refuted the reports.
Taking to Twitter, Samant wrote, “The misconception is being spread that Eknath Shinde is planning to build a new Sena Bhavan in Dadar. We are trying to have a central office so that the Chief Minister can meet the common people. We still have respect for the Shiv Sena Bhavan in Dadar.”
He tweeted in Marathi:
The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, has referred to his side as the “true Shiv Sena” and a follower of Balasaheb Thackeray’s philosophy, while accusing the Uddhav Thackeray-led group of departing from the values of the party’s founder, Bal Thackeray.
The Thackeray group has argued that delivering ministerial oaths to dissident MLAs whose disqualification petitions are now being heard by the Supreme Court amounts to “murder of democracy and the Constitution.”
New Sena Bhavan
This comes at a time when the Shinde faction is engaged in a tussle with the Thackeray faction over the Sena symbol. Last month, the Election Commission had asked the rival factions of the Shiv Sena, led by Thackeray and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, to submit documents by August 8 in support of their claims on the party’s election symbol — a “bow and arrow”. The EC on Thursday gave the Uddhav Thackeray faction 15 more days to submit documents in support of its claim on the party’s election symbol.
A five-storied Sena Bhavan with a corporate look was inaugurated by late Bal Thackeray on July 27, 2006, which was also the 46th birthday of his son Uddhav.
After Shinde and 39 legislators staged a coup and joined hands with the BJP to form the new government, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said, “Whether it is the Sena Bhavan, Saamana, Matoshree…they should not even think of looking at it.”
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