Shiv Sena

He also said that the NDA government has failed to bring any Kashmiri Pandit back to the valley.

This will be the third conclave after the earlier two were held in Patna and Bengaluru to chalk out the Opposition parties’ strategy to counter the Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections. “The next meeting here will be hosted by Shiv Sena (UBT) President Uddhav Thackeray… The Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (SP) are also with us,” said Raut.

"The BJP leaders were in no mood to oblige. They firmly told Shinde that if he did not want to give Ajit Pawar the Finance & Planning portfolio, then the Shiv Sena could handle it and instead make the NCP leader as the new CM. Taken aback, the Shinde group stepped back," Raut stated.

State NCP President Sunil Tatkare said that by Thursday evening, the party’s ministers in the government would be allocated portfolios and the three parties will continue to march ahead in full steam. Nine leaders of NCP were sworn-in as Ministers on July 2.

The decision of Dr. Gorhe, who was with the Shiv Sena (UBT) for over three decades, came barely three weeks after the party's spokesperson Dr. Manisha Kayande had joined the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Dr. Gorhe was welcomed to the Shiv Sena fold by Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and other senior leaders.

On May 11, a constitution bench of the Supreme Court had directed that the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker “must decide disqualification petitions in a reasonable time” against 16 Shiv Sena MLAs, including Eknath Shinde, who were accused of anti-party activities.

Nearly four years later, Ajit Pawar again sent the MVA into a post-luncheon tizzy, this time by splitting the NCP to join the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party regime of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Fadnavis, as the second Deputy CM – a first for the state, though a fifth time for himself.

The fast-paced political developments came after a routine meeting of his supporting MLAs and within hours, the decision was taken to walk out of the NCP.This afternoon, Pawar, along with several NCP heavyweights, went to Raj Bhavan .

The fast-paced political developments came after a routine meeting of his supporting MLAs and within hours, the decision was taken to walk out of the NCP.This afternoon, Pawar, along with several NCP heavyweights, went to Raj Bhavan .

"Shinde had taken the step of the 'uprising' along with us. However, he was very clear and said that in case it failed, then he would send us all back (to the party), call up Thackeray and say 'sorry', absolve us (the 40 MLAs) of any blame and take the full responsibility for it, and then shoot himself in the head," Kesarkar averred.