As per the Tenth Schedule, which does not recognise a split but allows a merger, the Eknath Shinde faction MLAs can avoid disqualification only by merging with another party.
Many pundits predicted the end of Uddhav Thackeray's political career due to the recent political crisis in Maharashtra. Can the Shiv Sena retain their stronghold in the BMC polls?
Issuing a letter still claiming to be the party's leader in the assembly, Mr Shinde today called a meeting of the Shiv Sena Legislature Party all MLAs, that is at the hotel in Goa where the rebel group has been staying since yesterday.
The Supreme Court on Monday granted interim relief to rebel Shiv Seva leader Eknath Shinde and other MLAs to file their reply to disqualification notices issued to them by the Deputy Speaker of Maharashtra Assembly by July 12, 5.30 pm.
The SC is likely to hear the petition filed by the Shinde camp to put a stay on disqualification notice issued by the deputy speaker to 16 rebel MLAs. A series of meetings in Uddhav and Shinde camps is expected.
The survival of the Shiv Sena as we know it and also the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government depend on various permutations and combinations
As an unsavoury political roganjosh is being vigorously whipped up in Maharashtra for the sixth day, the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) seems high on josh , the rebels group holed up in a Guwahati hotel is worried stiff and the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) remains starkly wary.
Five days after they rebelled against Shiv Sena president and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s leadership, the Sena rebel faction, led by senior minister Eknath Shinde, began to face the heat on Saturday as Deputy Speaker Narhari Zhirwal issued notices to 16 Sena rebel MLAs,