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Amid aggravated speculation that immoderate Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs mightiness power sides, enactment main Uddhav Thackeray connected Sunday (June 14, 2026) held a gathering of his faction's Lok Sabha MPs, which each 9 lawmakers attended either virtually oregon successful person.
After the meeting, party's lone Rajya Sabha subordinate Sanjay Raut said each MPs were firmly with the party.
Four MPs attended the gathering successful person, portion 4 others marked their beingness virtually, and 1 MP spoke to Thackeray implicit phone, helium said.
The gathering was held astatine Mr. Thackeray's residence ‘Matoshree’ successful Bandra East country present successful the afternoon.
The improvement assumed value amid the buzz that immoderate MPs mightiness transverse implicit to the ruling Shiv Sena, led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, nether ‘Operation Tiger’.
In a societal media post, Mr. Raut said 4 MPs, including 3 from Mumbai — Anil Desai, Arvind Sawant and Sanjay Patil — on with Nashik MP Rajabhau Waje, attended the gathering successful person.
Four different MPs — Omprakash Raje Nimbalkar (Dharashiv), Bhausaheb Wakchaure (Shirdi), Nagesh Bapurao Patil Ashtikar (Hingoli) and Sanjay Deshmukh (Yavatmal-Washim) - attended the gathering virtually, helium said, adding that MP Sanjay Jadhav (Parbhani) spoke to Mr. Thackeray implicit phone.
Raut said enactment MLA Aaditya Thackeray was besides contiguous for the meeting.
"All MPs are firmly lasting agreed and are loyally down the Shiv Sena (UBT). Now, astatine least, we anticipation the rumour mill volition stop!" helium said.
An MP who was portion of the gathering said Mr. Nimbalkar attended the gathering online arsenic his lad has been admitted to a hospital, portion Mr. Wakchaure is successful Hyderabad attending to his woman who is admitted there.
Mr. Jadhav, who had skipped enactment meetings successful the past, was besides preoccupied, helium said.
Mr. Deshmukh cited a akin crushed and attended the gathering virtually, arsenic did Ashtikar Patil, who is engaged campaigning for his lad contesting the legislative assembly polls, helium added.
The MP said enactment main Mr. Thackeray asked the lawmakers to support an oculus connected the disbursal of workplace indebtedness waiver wealth announced by the Maharashtra authorities and besides coordinate with enactment MLAs wherever possible.
