'Op Tiger' successful, says Eknath Shinde as 6 Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs join him
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NEW DELHI – "Operation Tiger is successful. Six tigers have joined us," Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde declared as six rebel members of Parliament from the rival Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) group joined the Shinde-led faction in a ceremony at the Y.B. Chavan Centre in Mumbai Monday.
The lawmakers who joined Shinde's party are Sanjay Haribhau Jadhav, Bhausaheb Rajaram Wakchaure, Omprakash Bhupalsingh Nimbalkar, Sanjay Dina Patil, Sanjay Uttamrao Deshmukh, and Nagesh Bapurao Patil Ashtikar.
Shinde said that after the 2022 rebellion of the then united Shiv Sena's legislators, this is the "second phase" to "protect Hindutva ideals". He said his faction is the "real" Shiv Sena as it works on the ideology of the late Bal Thackeray and the late Anand Dighe. Dighe, Shiv Sena strongman in Thane, was Shinde's political mentor.
In the 2022 split led by Shinde, 40 of the Shiv Sena's 56 legislators had broken away, allegedly under pressure from central investigative agencies. The split led to the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra. The breakaway group formed a new government with the Bharatiya Janata Party with Shinde as chief minister.
Shinde Monday assured the rebel parliamentarians that they will face no paucity of funds for development work in their constituencies. End
Reported by Asim Khan
Edited by Rajeev Pai
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