New Delhi, July 19: 12 Lok Sabha members of the Shiv Sena, including Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s son Shrikant Shinde, met Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday and requested him to change the party’s floor leader in the Lower House of Parliament.
The rebel Shiv Sena MPs met Birla a day after the party’s floor leader, Vinayak Raut, gave a letter to the speaker, asking him not to entertain any representation from the rival faction.
#Maharashtra CM #EknathShinde announced that 12 #ShivSena MPs have joined him in the interest of the people of the state.
Speaking to mediapersons, he said that the 12 MPs met LS Speaker #OmBirla & submitted a letter to the effect as a Shiv Sena Party Group in the Lower House. pic.twitter.com/DEYy7FINPG
— IANS (@ians_india) July 19, 2022
“Twelve Lok Sabha members of the Shiv Sena met Speaker Om Birla and requested him to appoint Rahul Shewale in place of Vinayak Raut as the party’s floor leader,” Hemant Godse, one of the 12 MPs of the Shinde faction who met Birla, said.
Raut, in his letter submitted to the speaker on Monday night, had made it clear that he was the “duly appointed” leader of the Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party and Rajan Vichare was the chief whip.
