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Shinde visits govt hospital, asks officials to provide better facilities to doctors

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Thane: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday expressed displeasure about the conditions in which doctors at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Civic Hospital (CSMH) in Kalwa area here work.
Speaking after a visit to the hospital, Shinde, who is an MLA from Thane, said the doctors must be provided better working conditions and facilities.
He also directed Municipal Commissioner Abhijit Bangar to take strict action against erring officials.
Doctors at the hospital were working hard but they were not getting good facilities, Shinde noted.
His government had vowed to make Mumbai pothole-free within two years and Thane, its twin city, can not be left behind, the chief minister said.
Shinde on this occasion launched road repair works worth Rs 391 crore in the city and inaugurated an underground parking facility at Gamdevi Maidan among other projects.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 4, 2023
Shinde vs MVA over Kasba Peth – ‘BJP lost one bypoll, but won 3 states’

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Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday tore into the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) over Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawars statement that the “common mans government was defeated by the masses in the Kasba Peth Assembly bypoll”.
Speaking on the motion of thanks to Governor Ramesh Bais’ address, Shinde said that merely one seat is not Maharashtra and “those who lose by-elections sweep the general elections”.
Taking a jibe at Ajit Pawar, the CM said the MVA is celebrating its victory in just one bypoll, but it forgets that the BJP has won three states (Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura).
He said the BJP has a history of losing bypolls and then winning Assembly elections, citing the example of Uttar Pradesh where the party lost four bypolls, but swept the entire state, and even in Maharashtra.
Shinde said he was thankful for losing the Kasba Peth bypoll as they have learnt some lessons from the defeat and will now work harder to win the hearts of the people there.
Referring to Ajit Pawar’s tweets that despite many bigwigs campaigning, contacting with the masses, the CM holding roadshows etc., the BJP candidate lost Kasba Peth to the Congress-MVA nominee, Shinde countered that even Sharad Pawar and other MVA leaders had held so many meetings there.
Hitting out at the Congress, he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi held roadshows in Gujarat and won the state, while Rahul Gandhi held roadshows in the northeastern states, but lost in all three, and “you don’t see the same common man who vanquished you in Chinchwad” (won by the BJP on Thursday).
Shinde also snubbed Ajit Pawar for making a political speech on the Governor’s address, saying it’s the result of losing power “which has clouded his vision and he cannot see the good performance of (his) government”.

The CM, while defending his government for working without keeping the elections in mind, accused Ajit Pawar of acting like a spokesperson of Shiv Sena (UBT), and advised him not to become a die-hard Shiv Sainik’ and allow others also to do their work.
Shinde emphatically reiterated that “we are the Shiv Sena, and with the BJP, and the Shiv Sena-BJP had contested the elections together (in 2019)”.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 3, 2023
Shiv Sena row: Shinde faction now focusd on ‘ownership’ of Shiv Sena Bhavan, ‘Saamana’

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Mumbai: With the Election Commission (EC) recognising Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s faction as the real Shiv Sena, it remains to be seen whether his group also stakes claim to the party headquarters ‘Shiv Sena Bhavan’ and party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, both currently controlled by the Uddhav Thackeray camp.
While the Shiv Sena Bhavan is located at Dadar in central Mumbai, the ‘Saamana’ head office is situated in the nearby Prabhadevi area. Both these establishments are currently run by different trusts.
CM Shinde has maintained that he would not stake claim to the Shiv Sena Bhavan even though he has got the party name and symbol. However, the rival camp is wary and on guard. Recently, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader and Thane MP Rajan Vichare submitted a letter to Thane Police Commissioner Jai Jeet Singh, urging him to thwart any attempts by the Shinde group to usurp the Shiv Sena ‘shakhas’ (local party offices) in the city.
The EC last week recognised the Shinde faction as the real Shiv Sena and allotted it the party’s ‘bow and arrow’ symbol, giving a jolt to the Thackeray camp. Earlier, the Shinde group was officially referred to as ‘Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena’ and the Thackeray group as Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray). The Supreme Court is hearing various petitions related to the tussle between the Shinde and Thackeray factions.
Due to the EC verdict, the Thackeray family lost control of the party that was founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray. The party, founded on the principles of justice for the sons of the soil, had adopted Hindutva as its key ideology and partnered with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1984, an alliance that continued till 2019 when Uddhav Thackeray joined hands with arch-rivals Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress to become the chief minister.
The Shiv Sena Bhavan is controlled by ‘Shivai Seva Trust’. Its founding trustees include late Bal Thackeray and his wife late Meena Thackeray. Many of the founding trustees are not alive now.
Its present trustees include senior leaders Subhash Desai, Diwakar Raote, Leeladhar Dake, former Mumbai mayor Vishaka Raut and Uddhav Thackeray himself.
While ‘Saamana’, the Shiv Sena mouthpiece founded by late Bal Thackeray, is managed by Prabhodhan Prakashan, whose printer-publisher is Thackeray loyalist Subhash Desai.

Uddhav Thackeray had resigned as the editor of ‘Saamana’ after assuming the chief minister’s charge in November 2019. He had handed over the editor’s post to his wife Rashmi Thackeray in March 2020. However, after the Shiv Sena split, Uddhav again took over as the editor in August 2022. Sanjay Raut is the executive editor of the party mouthpiece.
Senior journalist Prakash Akolkar, who has written ‘Jai Maharashtra’ – a book on Shiv Sena’s history, said, “CM Shinde has taken a mature decision of not staking claim to the Shiv Sena Bhavan and Saamana as both these institutions are operated by private trusts. Staking claim to these establishments would lead to further legal complications. It is also his indirect message to supporters to exercise restraint.”
Harshal Pradhan, a close aide of Uddhav Thackeray, said there are 350 Shiv Sena ‘shakhas’ in Mumbai, while outside Mumbai there is one such unit in each municipal ward.
Shakhas are the premises where the Shiv Sainiks (party workers) gather for political meetings, resolving local issues of citizens.
Vaibhav Purandare, the author of ‘Bal Thackeray and the Rise of the Shiv Sena’ said, “As a political party, the Shiv Sena directly owns very few properties. Shiv Sena Bhavan and Saamana are owned by trusts. While most of the Shiv Sena shakhas are either owned by the ‘shakha pramukhs’ or by private individuals who have given their property to set up these offices. It is up to these individuals to decide which way to go.”
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 23, 2023
In slip of tongue, CM Shinde says he has informed election commission about MPSC students demand

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Mumbai: In a mix-up that perhaps showed what is on his mind, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said his government had asked the “Election Commission” to defer the implementation of the new exam pattern of the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC).
He, obviously, meant to say that the government had written about the students’ demand to the MPSC which conducts competitive exams for various government posts.
A section of students has been demanding that the MPSC should implement its new exam pattern from 2025 and not this year.
“We agree with the demands of students aspiring to appear for the Maharashtra Public Service Commission examinations,” Shinde told reporters.
But then he said that the government had conveyed this stand “to the election commission” and “a positive decision is expected from the election commission.”
The EC recently recognized the Shinde faction as the real Shiv Sena and allotted it the party’s bow and arrow symbol in a setback to the Uddhav Thackeray group.
The Supreme Court is also hearing various petitions related to the tussle between the Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray factions of the party.
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February 22, 2023
Thackeray group suggests disqualification proceedings against Shinde camp, SC declines

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday rejected the suggestion of the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena to decide the disqualification proceedings pending against Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and MLAs belonging to his camp, saying it cannot assume the role of the Speaker as doing so will have “serious ramifications”.
The Thackeray faction had on Tuesday insisted that the court decide the disqualification proceedings as that was the only way to “uphold the democratic spirit of the Constitution”.
“Right or wrong, this is the system we have assumed as ‘We the People’. Can a court try to breach this system? Should the court enter into that area? This is an area which is worrying us,” the court observed on Wednesday.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, which was hearing a batch of pleas related to the June 2022 Maharashtra political crisis, told senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction, that ultimately it is the Speaker of the House, who has to decide whether the rebellion by the Shinde bloc attracted the provisions of the anti-disqualification law.
“You are saying whatever has to be done has to be done at the behest of the party. Your argument is that they (Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde camp) have acted contrary to the interest of the party.
“They have appointed their own whip and leader of the party and their behavior and conduct invited disqualification but all of this leads us to one area that it is the Speaker of the House who is to decide whether there is any disqualification or not. That’s an area we are unable to breach,” the court said.
The five-judge bench, also comprising Justices MR Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and PS Narasimha, said it understood the arguments of Sibal that in parliamentary democracy, the political party is supreme.
“So far so good. It’s a very significant point you (Sibal) have made that they (Shinde faction) are elected representatives of Shiv Sena party and their behavior must be dictated by the party. Now, the question is, should the court enter into the area of Speaker and, if it assumes the role of Speaker, then it will have very serious ramification.

“Right or wrong, this is the system we have assumed as ‘We the People’. Now, will the court try and breach this system that is worrying us,” it said.
Sibal, assisted by advocate Amit Anand Tiwari, said this court has held that illegality cannot be allowed to be continued even for a day.
He said all these acts (by Shinde camp) were perpetuated by two orders of this court dated June 27, 2022 by which this court kept in abeyance their disqualification proceedings before the Deputy Speaker, and of June 29, 2022 by which the court refused to stay the direction of the Maharashtra governor to the 31-month-old Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government to take a floor test in the assembly to prove its majority.
He submitted the top court should be worried because if this becomes a precedent, it can happen in other cases too.
The bench said if such a situation arises because of a judicial order, then it is a duty of the court to rectify that situation.
“Now, assuming that if we do so and place ourselves in a situation before June 27, 2022, then we would have said that let the Speaker decide and your argument would have been till the Speaker decided their disqualification, there should not be a trust vote.
“It would be very difficult to retrace our steps back in this scenario as the question would arise which Speaker or that Speaker,” the bench said.
Sibal said this was exactly what was done in the 2016 Nabam Rebia case, where the court set the clock back and ordered status quo ante by restoring the Arunachal Pradesh government.
The bench said, “Mr. Sibal you want Nabam Rebia (judgement to be followed) when it suits you and you don’t want it when it does not suit you. Today, we have a Speaker in a democratically elected house and after that can we now say that let the then deputy speaker take a call on disqualification. Sorry, it will be very difficult to retrace our steps back.”
Sibal submitted all these developments took place after the court order which allowed the status quo to be changed.
The bench said those two orders were passed after hearing arguments from both the sides and that retracing the steps would mean invalidating the trust vote which took place subsequently.
He said Parliament, in its wisdom, has used the term ‘Political Party’ under the provisions of Para 2(1)(b) of the Tenth Schedule, wherein a member attracts disqualification for going against the wishes or directions of the political party.
“Democracy only thrives when the institutions uphold the sanctity of the Constitution. In this case, the governor did not stop them (Eknath Shinde faction) or chose not to stop them. He never asked them who you represent or which party you represent. Unless Nabam Rebia is overruled, these situations are bound to happen.
“Governors are actively playing a role which is disturbing the polity of the state. I leave this court to find answers to these issues,” he said.
The hearing remained inclusive and will continue on Thursday.
On Tuesday, the top court had told the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena that the Speaker of a House functions like a tribunal in matters related to defection under the anti-defection law.
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February 22, 2023
SC refuses to stay EC order recognising Shinde faction as real Shiv Sena

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to stay the Election Commission order recognising the Eknath Shinde-led bloc as the real Shiv Sena and issued a notice to the group headed by the Maharashtra chief minister on the plea of the rival Uddhav Thackeray camp challenging the poll panel’s decision.
A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud took note of the submissions of senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for Thackeray, and sought response of the faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Shinde.
The counsel for the Shinde faction told the bench, also comprising Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala, that it will not issue any whip or initiate process to disqualify the lawmakers of the Thackeray faction in the meantime.
“All right, issue notice. The counter affidavit will be filed within two weeks,” the bench said.
While issuing notice, the bench, however, refused to stay the decision of the poll panel acknowledging the Shinde faction as the real Shiv Sena, saying it cannot be done without hearing the other side.
The top court had on Tuesday agreed to hear the plea of the Thackeray camp against the Election Commission’s decision.
Besides recognising the Shinde-led bloc as the real Shiv Sena, the poll panel had also ordered allotment of the party’s original ‘bow and arrow’ poll symbol to it.

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February 22, 2023
Maha ex-CM Ashok Chavan claims being ‘watched’, Shinde orders police probe

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Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday said that he has directed state Director General of Police to probe complaints submitted by former CM Ashok Chavan that he is under the “surveillance” of some elements in Mumbai and Nanded.
“I have spoken with Chavan and also with the DGP. I have given instructions to carry out a detailed investigation into the issues raised by Chavan,” Shinde said.
Chavan made a shocking claim that he was allegedly shadowed and under the “watch” of some persons and how someone had forged his letterhead as the PWD Minister of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.
He said that the letter, dated May 5, 2022 was written to the then CM Uddhav Thackeray with the intent to create an impression that he was working against the Maratha community.
“I am under the watch of a few people who are following me everywherea where I go, whom I meet and are warning that I should meet the same fate as the late Vinayak Mete,” Chavan told media persons in Nanded and Pune in the past two days.
The reference was to the Maratha leader and Shiv Sangram chief Mete, who was killed in a road accident on August 14, 2022 on the Mumbai Pune Expressway. After his family raised suspicions over his death, three days later, Shinde ordered a CID probe into the tragedy.
Chavan said that he has filed a complaint on the forged letter with Nanded’s Additional Superintendent of Police Abinash Kumar pointing out how the text of an earlier letter was replaced without touching the letterhead and signature to convey a misleading narrative.
Rushing to Chavan’s support, state Congress President Nana Patole demanded to know whether the state government is conspiring to eliminate Opposition party leaders.

“Shiv Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut has given a complaint of a contract to kill him. Now a former CM Chavan is under surveillance and has spoken of plans to finish him. Why is an ex-CM of the state being trailed and what is the motive,” demanded Patole.
Besides, he pointed out the instance of the attacks on Sena-UBT leader Aditya Thackeray’s vehicle in Aurangabad, the assault on Congress MLA Dr. Pragya R. Satav, and other similar cases involving opposition parties leaders in the past 7 months, and the recent threats issued to Nationalist Congress Party leader Dr. Jitendra Awhad and his family.
Patole said that the law and order situation in the state has deteriorated and if the people in power are working to eliminate the Opposition, then it is a disgrace for democracy.
He urged the state government to immediately look into all these cases and take appropriate action against the culprits.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 21, 2023
Another blow to Thackeray as Shinde faction gets Shiv Sena office

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New Delhi: After the Election Commission gave Shiv Sena’s name and poll symbol to the Eknath Shinde faction, the Uddhav Thackeray group suffered another major setback as the office allotted to Shiv Sena in the Parliament House in Delhi was given to the Shinde faction.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat allotted room number-128, earlier allocated to Shiv Sena party, to Eknath Shinde faction on Monday.
The Secretariat wrote a letter to Rahul Shewale, the leader of the Eknath Shinde faction in Lok Sabha, informing him of the same.
Moreover, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear on Wednesday a plea by Uddhav Thackeray against the Election Commission of India (ECI) decision recognising the Eknath Shinde faction as the official Shiv Sena.
On February 17, the Election Commission allotted the Shiv Sena party name and the bow and arrow symbol to the faction led by Eknath Shinde.
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February 21, 2023
Case against Sanjay Raut on charge of making derogatory remarks against Maha CM Shinde

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Nashik: Nashik Police have registered a case against Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, an official said on Monday.
Shinde faction officer-bearer Yogesh Beldar lodged a complaint at Panchavati police station here late Sunday night, alleging that during an interaction with a TV channel, Raut used derogatory words against CM Shinde and maligned his image, he said.
Based on the complaint, a case has been registered against Raut under Indian Penal Code Section 500 (defamation), the official said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during his visit to Pune on Saturday, said those who chose to “lick the soles” of people with opposite ideologies have found which side truth was on after the Election Commission declared the faction headed by CM Eknath Shinde as the real Shiv Sena and gave it the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol.
When asked about Shah’s remark, Rajya Sabha member Raut on Sunday said, “What is the present chief minister licking? Maharashtra doesn’t give importance to what Shah says.”
Raut in a tweet on Sunday also claimed that a “deal of Rs 2000 crore” has taken place so far to “purchase” the Shiv Sena party name and its ‘bow and arrow’ symbol, a charge dismissed by the Shinde faction and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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February 20, 2023
Opinion: How Shinde group gets name, symbol of Shiv Sena

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By Syed Ishaq, Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
I was not surprised to hear that the Shinde group gets the name and symbol of Shiv Sena. However, the compulsion, helplessness of the Election Commission, and the pressure of the government were realized. Ever since this government came to power, the constitution has been constantly being threatened, and independent bodies such as the President, ED, Income Tax department, CBI, which is not needed because no one would have been punished for their actions. The Election Commission which has left with no merits has been playing the role of the government’s puppet.
When it has been proved that EVM can be rigged with no trouble and in the developed countries where people calculate each second, they vote with ballot paper and use their right to vote by standing in long queues and on the other hand the Indians who waste a lot of time, however, the voting is being done through EVM, which is directly benefiting the BJP and these people are coming back to power despite poor governance and leading the country towards destruction, where 40 crore people are forced to have meal ones a day. The 55-year-old unemployment record was broken.
The BJP lacked candidates in 2019 elections, so a convict, who was serving a sentence for her serious crime in jail, was first released on parole, then given ticket to fight election against the former chief minister and was manage to win the election with the help of EVM.
The Supreme Court, while hearing the results of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, ruled that the results of 357 seats are suspicious where more votes were polled than the voters. However, instead of disregarding the results, the judiciary remained silent.
Shiv Sena was founded in 1966 in order to weaken the labour union, the then Prime Minister known as Iron Lady enters in coalition with Bal Thackeray who was a cartoonist and the formation of this coalition weakened the labour union, however, due to Bal Thackeray’s hard work and efforts, the party got control over Bombay Municipality with public mandate. The budget of Bombay Municipality is equal to the budget of a small state and this municipality includes Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) as well.
Shiv Sena started participating in the state assembly elections after gaining complete control over the municipality and as a party with a sectarian mentality, it allied with the BJP and in the 2014 assembly elections, with the support of the minority political party, the coalition manages to cut the votes of secular parties on 30 to 35 seats. The minority party was succeeded in dispersing the minority votes, resulting in the Shiv Sena in coalition with BJP came to power for the first time and immediately after the swearing-in ceremony, a complete ban was imposed on cow slaughter, as a result, about 5 lakhs people have lost their jobs who were into this business.
In the 2019 assembly elections, the minority political party nominated 55 candidates and once again the secular political parties suffered a loss, but due to the stubbornness of a fugitive and the wisdom of the NCP president, the government was formed by the alliance of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress. Shiv Sena’s action has made the people sympathetic towards it and a different type of government with ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ motto was formed.

However, the BJP succeeded in creating differences in Shiv Sena and nominated Eknath Shinde, an auto driver as the Chief Minister for the first time in 75 years of independence. The former Chief Minister gladly accepted the position of Deputy Chief Minister which shows that he can fall to any extent in the greed of power.
Now, in the fight for succession of the original Shiv Sena, the Election Commission has given decisions in favour of Eknath Shinde and handed over their distinctive election symbol of arrow and bow. However, the people of India are well aware of the formation of Shiv Sena and its founder Bal Thackeray. In this way, Udhav Thackeray is the legal heir and has the right to lead the party. The Shiv Sena has filed a petition in the Supreme Court and if the Chief Justice of India hears this matter, Udhav Thackray may get his rights.
Views expressed are personal.
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February 20, 2023