In yet one more setback for former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Shiv Sena Spokesperson Sheetal Mhatre on Tuesday joined the faction of incumbent Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde. She was a former corporator in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) from the Dahisar space. According to offficial experiences, Mhatre is the primary former corporator of Shiv Sena from Mumbai who has brazenly introduced assist for Shinde.
Mhatre used to symbolize ward no 7 in suburban Dahisar in north Mumbai in 2012 and 2017. She together with some Shiv Sena staff visited Shinde’s residence and expressed her assist to him on Tuesday evening, information company PTI reported.
Thackeray-led Sena had appointed Mhatre because the ‘sampark sanghatak’ (coordinator) for the Alibaug-Pen space. The growth comes forward of the essential elections for the Sena-controlled Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) are slated to be held within the subsequent few months.
The much-awaited for the Sena-controlled BMC are slated to be held within the subsequent few months.
Interestingly, Mhatre selected to hitch the Shinde camp simply days after an FIR was registered in opposition to her beneath Section 363 (kidnapping) and different related provisions of the Indian Penal Court (IPC) for allegedly abducting and assaulting a 22-year-old man in a transferring automobile in Borivali.
Mhatre together with six others allegedly alighted the car of the 22-year-old scholar Rahul Dhanuka and verbally abused and assaulted him.
Earlier within the day, Sena introduced that it’ll assist the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA’s Presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu vis-a-vis Opposition’s contender – Yashwant Sinha for the highest put up. Thackeray made the formal announcement throughout a presser after a sequence of consultations with the occasion MPs, MLAs and different leaders together with tribals.
