Sachin Ahir: One other setback to Uddhav Thackeray: UBT MLC Sachin Ahir joins Shinde Shiv Sena | India Information
NEW DELHI: Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) suffered one other setback as MLC Sachin Ahir joined the Eknath Shinde-led faction on Tuesday.He filed nomination for Maharashtra council deputy chairperson put up as Mahayuti candidate.The newest insurrection in Shiv Sena (UBT) includes 6 of the occasion’s 9 Lok Sabha MPs crossing over to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, dealing one other main blow to Uddhav Thackeray.The MPs who switched sides are Sanjay Haribhai Jadhav, Sanjay Dina Patil, Bhausaheb Rajaram Wakchaure, Sanjay Uttamrao Deshmukh, Nagesh Patil Ashtikar and Omraje Nimbalkar.Their defection reduces the Uddhav faction’s power within the Lok Sabha to only three MPs, whereas the Shinde-led Shiv Sena now has 13 members.The importance of the transfer lies within the numbers. The six MPs represent two-thirds of Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Lok Sabha power—the brink required beneath the anti-defection legislation to merge with one other occasion with out inviting disqualification.Their formal induction into the Shinde camp marks the primary main parliamentary cut up within the Uddhav-led faction because the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.The cut up is the newest chapter within the Shiv Sena’s inside battle that started in June 2022, when Eknath Shinde led a insurrection in opposition to then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, toppling the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities. In February 2023, the Election Fee recognised Shinde’s faction because the official Shiv Sena and allotted it the occasion’s iconic ‘bow and arrow’ image, whereas Uddhav Thackeray’s group was renamed Shiv Sena (UBT). Since then, each factions have been competing to say the political and ideological legacy of occasion founder Balasaheb Thackeray.
