Shinde-Thackeray fight for Shiv Sena dominance reaches parliament

Credent TV | The struggle between Shinde-Thackeray to lead the Shiv Sena has spread to Parliament, and the present chief minister of Maharashtra seems to be gaining the upper hand.
On Tuesday, Eknath Shinde said that Bhavana Gawali, the chief whip, and Rahul Shewale, the Shiv Sena leader in the Lower House of Parliament, had been recognised by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
Shinde was surrounded by 12 Shiv Sena members of the Lok Sabha who had written to Speaker Om Birla requesting a change in the parliamentary party’s leader.
This occurs the day after a virtual meeting with Shinde was attended by 12 of the 19 Sena Lok Sabha MPs.

Shinde told the reporters in the capital that the 12 MPs had met Om Birla and had filed a petition asking to be recognised as a Shiv Sena Party Group in the Lower House.

According to Shinde, Bhavana Gawali is the party’s top whip in the Lok Sabha, and Rahul Shewale is the new head of the Shiv Sena group.

In the “interest of the people of Maharashtra,” he said, 12 of the Shiv Sena‘s 19 MPs had joined his side.

Shirikant Eknath Shinde, Rahul Shewale, Bhavana Gawali, Hemant Godse, Rajendra Gavit, Sadashiv Lokhande, Hemant Patil, Sanjay Mandlik, Dhairyasheel Mane, Shrirang Barne, Krupal Tumane, and Prataprao Jadhav are the MPs.

Many MPs were dissatisfied with Vinayak Raut’s internal group leadership, so we wrote to the speaker requesting that he be replaced, according to Rahul Shewale.
In a letter to the speaker on Monday, party MP Vinayak Raut of the competing Thackeray faction pleaded with him not to listen to any arguments from the other side. Rajan Vichare, according to Raut, was the chief whip and he was the “duly anointed” head of the Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party.
The most recent occurrences occurred less than a month after a rebellion by the majority of Sena MLAs against Uddhav Thackeray’s leadership resulted in the overthrow of the MVA government in Maharashtra and the appointment of Eknath Shinde as chief minister.
With assistance from the BJP, the Shinde side prevailed in the state assembly’s floor vote. The Parliament has now been affected.
According to sources, two MPs from the Shinde camp are expected to be appointed to the Union cabinet, one as a minister of state and the other with a cabinet slot.