UDDHAV THACKERAY THROWS OUT CM EKNATH SHINDE OUT OF SHIV SENA

Mumbai(The Quiver) : After beheaded defeat of Uddhav Thackeray from the post of CM, today he removed newly appointed Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde from the post of Shiv Sena leader in the party organisation.

In a letter issued by the party, Thackeray said that Shinde has been indulging in “anti-party activities” and has voluntarily given up his membership.

“In exercise of the powers vested in me as the Shivsena Paksha Pramukha, I remove you from the post of Shivsena Leader in the party organisation,” the letter signed by Uddhav Thackeray states.

On the other side Shinde has claimed that he is the leader of Shiv Sena and the Thackeray camp is a minority, he never called himself Paksha Pramukh (party chief). Thackeray is technically still the party chief.Shinde also sent out a message claiming himself as the political heir to Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. He changed the profile picture of his Twitter handle to one with Balasaheb Thackeray.

The Shinde faction has declared in the Supreme Court that they are the real Shiv Sena. Arguing that Thackeray has diluted the Hindutva ideology of his father Bal Thackeray by forming a coalition with Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress, he called it an “unnatural alliance”.