Uddhav Thackeray suffers setback as another Shiv Sena MLA joins Shinde camp ahead of floor test
India Today
Santosh Bangar was reportedly seen with Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and MLAs of his faction. Bangar had left with the Shinde faction MLAs from hotel today morning and arrived with them at the Assembly.
Uddhav Thackeray suffered another setback as one of his Shiv Sena MLAs joined Eknath Shinde’s camp. The development comes hours before a floor test that the four-day-old Maharashtra government will face.
Santosh Bangar was reportedly seen with Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and MLAs of his faction. Bangar had left with the Shinde faction MLAs from hotel today morning and arrived with them at the Assembly now.
A day before the crucial trust vote of the Eknath Shinde-BJP government, the newly-appointed speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly on Sunday night removed Shiv Sena Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Ajay Chaudhary as the legislative party leader. This came as a jolt to Uddhav Thackeray's faction.
Earlier, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray resigned as the Maharashtra Chief Minister after the Supreme Court refused to stay a floor test ordered by the Governor to prove majority.
Eknath Shinde took oath as the new CM of Maharashtra on June 30 with BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis as his deputy.
