MP Vinayak Raut says 22 MLAs and 9 MPs from Shinde camp are upset with BJP
Minister Shambhuraj Desai denies the Sena (UBT) MP’s claim that the former told Uddhav Thackeray that some Shinde-camp legislators were feeling suffocated.
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Vinayak Raut. (Source: Loksabha.nic.in) Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Vinayak Raut has claimed there is unrest in the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as the party’s 22 MLAs and nine Lok Sabha MPs are upset with the BJP. He claimed that the legislators were in touch with the Sena (UBT) and wished to leave the party since development works in their constituencies were not being done.
“Several people in Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s party are suffering and in the mood to leave. Apart from this, 22 MLAs and nine out of the 13 MPs are upset and are also in touch with us. Their works are not being done. They say they are being treated unfairly. Even as Eknath Shinde himself became stable, these MLAs and MPs are complaining that no one else is getting respect and their rightful place,” Raut said Monday.
Raut also said that minister Shambhuraj Desai had conveyed a message to Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray 15 days ago that the legislators of the Shinde faction had been feeling suffocated.
“Not only Desai, we have seen how Tanaji Sawant and Gajanan Kirtikar have also expressed discontent,” Raut said, adding that Shinde-led Shiv Sena was uneasy about the party ally BJP’s Lok Sabha poll plans.
Desai, however, denied having contacted Uddhav and demanded an apology from Raut. “This is all wrong information. I have not contacted or communicated with the Thackerays. I am giving two days’ time to Raut to apologise. Or I will send a defamation notice to him,” the minister said.
Last week Shiv Sena MP Gajanan Kirtikar said that the Shinde-led Sena was still getting a stepmotherly treatment from the BJP even though both were constituents of the National Democratic Alliance.
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