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TopicEknath Shinde

Topic: Eknath Shinde

Eknath Shinde was the united Shiv Sena’s most senior leader in Thane, a satellite city of Mumbai and a stronghold of the party. The Shiv Sena, launched by Bal Thackeray in 1966, split in 2022 when Eknath Shinde led a rebellion to topple the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government. The new faction then formed a government with the BJP, with Shinde as CM. The new party — Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) — now claims to be the real Shiv Sena.

Shinde was brought up in Thane, which continues to be his stronghold. In his early years in the party, he was influenced by Anand Dhige, a prominent Shiv Sena leader in the area. A Shiv Sainik who headed a shakha back in 1980s, Shinde became a corporator in the Thane Municipal Corporation before becoming an MLA in 2004. He has been a member of the assembly for four terms now. In 2019, in the Uddhav Thackeray government, he worked as Minister of Urban Development and Public Works and Minister of Home Affairs (Acting).

Shinde-led Maharashtra govt plans Rs 84 cr special publicity drive ahead of Lok Sabha polls

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Drive will give info about schemes, projects & development works undertaken in 2023-24. Specific budgets are set aside for different media, with largest share for outdoor advertising.

Of guns, glory & machinations: Inside story of BJP-Sena tussle in Shinde’s stronghold Thane

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BJP, for long, had been trying to make inroads in this district. Now with CM's MP son increasingly asserting his presence, there is anger among the rank and file of the party.

Mahayuti will win 45 seats in Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra, says CM Eknath Shinde

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Addressing a gathering, the CM highlighted achievements of the state government across various sectors and the benefits of a "double engine government"

Focus on infra, culture — highlights from Maharashtra interim budget & Opposition’s criticism

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Ahead of assembly polls & general elections, Ajit Pawar announces museum on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj & Marathi language centres. Opposition says budget made 'keeping polls in mind'.

Reservation agitation established Shinde as a Maratha leader. Risky to play politics over it

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SGPC pans Eknath Shinde govt bid to limit Sikh groups’ picks on Nanded gurdwara board

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Maharashtra cabinet Monday proposed that govt would nominate 12 members to 17-member board, while cutting number of members to be nominated by SGPC to two from four. 

Cracks exposed in Maharashtra ruling alliance as NCP, BJP leaders question CM over Maratha OBC quota

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Both BJP & Ajit Pawar faction of NCP have sizable OBC vote bank & oppose granting Marathas OBC quota. NCP's Bhujbal has even called upon OBC community members to take out public marches.

What’s the Shinde govt’s ‘sage soyare’ clause that ended Jarange Patil’s Maratha quota agitation

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Shinde govt Friday issued draft order to extend quota benefits associated with Kunbi caste, part of OBCs, to paternal kin of eligible persons and relations forming out of marriage.

‘Send objections in lakhs,’ Bhujbal tells OBCs on govt accommodating Marathas in their quota

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Irked by his own government’s acceptance of Maratha demands, Shinde Sena minister calls meeting of OBC leaders Sunday, asks Dalits, tribals to join.

Shinde to meet Jarange after Maharashtra govt comes out with late-night Maratha quota draft ordinance

PTI -
During his speech Friday, Jarange had warned that he and his supporters would enter Mumbai Saturday to protest at Azad Maidan ground if their demands were not met by the same night.
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