Mumbai: In one more blow to Shiv Sena (UBT) faction head Uddhav Thackeray, Bhushan Desai, the son of his trusted aide and former industries minister Subhash Desai, joined Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction on Monday. Desai joined the Shinde faction within the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and a number of other different Shiv Sena leaders.
Maharashtra | Bhushan Desai, son of former industries minister & Uddhav Thackeray faction chief Subhash Desai joins CM Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena. pic.twitter.com/Y4MeNH4XtF
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Desai joined the Shinde faction simply days forward of the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections. His switching the camp is being seen as a significant improvement within the political circles of Maharashtra. It could also be famous that Subhash has been an in depth confidant of former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and served because the Minister of Industries and Mines through the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities in Maharashtra.
The improvement can be being seen as an enormous setback for Uddhav Thackeray, day after the previous Maharashtra chief minister misplaced the Shiv Sena identify and its election image to the Eknath Shinde faction after the Election Commission declared the later as “real Shiv Sena”.
Reacting to the event, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Aaditya Thackeray stated Bhushan was not with Uddhav faction. “Subhash Desai is our huge chief. we comply with his steerage, his son was not with us. Whoever desires to go to the washer ought to go,” he added.
Last month, the Election Commission gave the Shiv Sena identify and the bow-and-arrow get together image to the faction led by Shinde, who revolted towards Uddhav Thackeray and changed him because the chief minister, becoming a member of fingers with the BJP final 12 months.
However, this resolution didn’t go properly with the Uddhav camp, which later approached the Supreme Court to problem the Election Commission’s order recognising the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the actual Shiv Sena and allocating it the “bow and arrow” ballot image. However, the Supreme Court refused to remain the ballot panel order.
On Sunday, Aaditya Thackeray alleged the Election Commission is “fully compromised” and stated its resolution to recognise the Shinde faction because the Shiv Sena and allot it the bow and arrow image was harmful for democracy.
He stated the acronym “CM” of Maharashtra currently stands for a “corrupt man”, and that the “unlawful and unconstitutional chief minister will certainly go”.
