Maharashtra speaker issues notices to 40 Shiv Sena MLAs including CM Shinde, Uddhav says 'we will seek justice'

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Within a span of one year two major parties Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra saw the party get split into two, owing to disagreement with leadership...

While the Pawar versus Pawar battle has caught attention of the masses, an older split in Shiv Sena has sought limelight again when Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Saturday said notices have been issued to 40 MLAs of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and 14 of the Uddhav Thackeray faction, seeking their replies on disqualification petitions against them..

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray started a two-day tour of Maharashtra's Vidarbha region on Sunday to interact with his party workers and boost their morale ahead of the Lok Sabha and state Assembly polls due next year, a party leader said..

. Thackeray's tour comes a week after Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar and eight other NCP MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government..

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