Fearing contemporary mutiny by MPs, Uddhav’s Sena modifications its chief whip in Lok Sabha

By PTI

MUMBAI: The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena on Wednesday nominated Rajan Vichare because the occasion’s chief whip within the Lok Sabha, changing MP Bhavana Gawali, occasion chief Sanjay Raut stated.

“It is to inform you that Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party has nominated Rajan Vichare, MP (LS) as the chief whip in Lok Sabha in place of Bhavana Gawali, MP (LS), with immediate effect,” Raut stated in a letter to Parliamentary Affairs minister Pralhad Joshi.

Raut is the Leader of the Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party.

Gawali, who represents the Yavatmal-Washim LS constituency in japanese Maharashtra, was one of many Sena MPs to recommend that the Sena ally with the BJP once more amid the riot led by Eknath Shinde.

Vichare represents the Thane Lok Sabha constituency.

Incidentally, CM Eknath Shinde additionally hails from Thane.

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The Shiv Sena has 18 MPs within the Lok Sabha and three within the Rajya Sabha.

Earlier within the day, insurgent Shiv Sena MLA Gulabrao Patil had claimed that 12 out of 18 Sena MPs would quickly be part of the Eknath Shinde-led faction.

A day earlier, Shiv Sena Lok Sabha member Rahul Shewale had urged Uddhav Thackeray to ask occasion MPs to help NDA’s Presidential nominee Draupadi Murmu, contemplating her tribal roots and contribution to the social sector.

Whips performed a vital position within the current political disaster which culminated within the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA authorities and Eknath Shinde taking oath as the brand new chief minister.

The factions led by Shinde and Thackeray had issued whips for voting through the election of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and the belief vote of the Shinde-led authorities.

The validity of the whips is being contested by one another.