Shinde-led Shiv Sena MP Shrirang Barne alleges ‘double standards’ after party gets just one MoS berth

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Mumbai: A day after a leader from the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena took oath in the Narendra Modi-led government, senior party MP Shrirang Barne alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had short-changed the Shiv Sena and was using double standards for its allies...

Prataprao Jadhav, who won the Lok Sabha poll from Buldhana, was sworn-in Sunday as Minister of State (MoS) with independent charge in the Modi cabinet...

Reacting to Barnes comments, MP Shrikant Shinde, Shiv Sena leader in the Lok Sabha, said his party was unconditionally supporting the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and that there is no bargaining or negotiation for power...

He added that the Lok Janshakti Party got a cabinet berth despite having just five MPs against Shiv Senas seven, which makes it the BJPs third-largest ally in the NDA...

He added that the BJP should also have offered a cabinet berth to Satara MP Udayanraje Bhosale, a descendant of Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji to keep the respect for the dynasty...

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