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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).

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Having lost the multi-crore Vedanta-Foxconn deal to Gujarat, Maharashtra govt says Nanar project was a bigger loss, shifts heat to Thackeray-led Sena that had opposed the refinery.

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Maharashtra lobbied to get $22 bn plant for years, but Vedanta-Foxconn signed MoU with Gujarat Tuesday. PM has now promised better project, says state minister Uday Samant.

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Maharashtra had been lobbying for the investment for over 7 years and was in advanced stages of negotiations. The development comes months ahead of Gujarat assembly polls.

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Over 10 days of the festival, Maharashtra CM visited '100s of pandals', big & small, across the city, which is in 'complete contrast to Uddhav Thackeray,' say leaders from his camp.

Eye on BMC polls, Sena’s Shinde faction builds cadre strength in Thackeray bastion Mumbai

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After split in Shiv Sena, party’s cadre continue to be committed to Thackerays. In expansion bid, Shinde faction has laid down organisational structure in Mumbai, opened shakhas.

Heart of Thackeray politics, Dussehra rallies — why Shivaji Park is site of Sena tug-of-war

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Uddhav-led Sena faction fears that the Shinde-led govt may try to use its power to deny them permission to use the ground for its iconic Dussehra rally. All eyes are now on BMC.

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