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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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Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari presided on the oath-taking ceremony at the Raj Bhavan in Mumbai Thursday. Eknath Shinde was sworn in as the new CM of Maharashtra.

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Eknath Shinde, who rebelled from the Shiv Sena earlier this month and was camping in Guwahati for nine days before arriving in Goa, returned to Mumbai Thursday afternoon.

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The top court will hear the matter in the evening; meanwhile, the rebel group will leave Guwahati today and travel to Goa.

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Shiv Sena rebel camp and MNS seem like a ‘logical’ pairing with their focus on Hindutva and Marathi pride. But some Sena MLAs are worried Raj Thackeray ‘will be supreme’.
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