New Chief Of Shiv Sena : Eknath Shinde
Eknath Shinde’s anointment as the new Sena chief comes a day before the Supreme Court is set to hear a plea by the Uddhav Thackeray faction to restrain Shinde from taking control of Sena’s properties and finances.
- Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde was named as the new Shiv Sena president at the party’s national executive meeting in Mumbai.
- It was the first national executive meeting after the Election Commission of India (ECI) recognised his faction as the real Shiv Sena and allocated the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol to him.
- Shinde’s anointment as the new Sena chief comes a day before the Supreme Court is set to hear a plea by the Uddhav Thackeray faction to restrain Shinde from taking control of Sena’s properties and finances.
- The two factions have also been battling over control of offices.
- The Shinde faction MLAs took charge of the Shiv Sena office in the Maharashtra Assembly.
- The Lok Sabha secretariat has said that the Sena office in the Parliament building in New Delhi had been allotted to the Shinde camp.
