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According to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction’s mouthpiece Saamana, 22 of the Sena’s 40 MLAs would shortly defect to the BJP. The party stated in its weekly column that the BJP only appointed Eknath Shinde as Maharashtra’s chief minister as a “temporary arrangement.”
“Now everyone has understood that his chief ministerial uniform will be taken off anytime. Shinde’s group should have fielded a candidate in the Andheri East by-election. But it was the BJP that avoided it,” the Rokthok column in Saamana claimed.
“The Shinde faction’s claim of success in the gram panchayat and sarpanch elections of Maharashtra is false. At least 22 MLAs of the Shinde group are upset. Majority of these MLAs will merge themselves with the BJP,” the column stated.
