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Shiv Sena (UBT) person Sanjay Raut connected Tuesday (June 2, 2026) said that if immoderate of the leaders who sided with Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde successful 2022 regret their "mistake", they should instrumentality to the enactment led by Uddhav Thackeray. Some people, however, volition not get introduction into the party, Mr. Raut said, speaking to reporters successful Nashik.
"If anyone regrets the mistake...[because of] the mode the BJP is insulting them, if anyone feels that they person made a mistake oregon were misguided, they should travel backmost to the enactment led by Uddhav Thackeray," the Rajya Sabha subordinate said.
Mr. Raut's remark came a time aft erstwhile State Minister Abdul Sattar, who is with the Shiv Sena faction led by Shinde, said that portion the BJP "cut the hands and legs of the Sena (UBT), it chopped disconnected the caput of the (Shinde-led) Shiv Sena successful Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district”. “There was nary constituent to the Sena-BJP confederation if ‘our elder brother’ is finishing america off,” Mr. Sattar said, portion replying successful the affirmative erstwhile asked if the 2 Shiv Senas should travel together.
Mr. Raut said that the BJP was ne'er the "elder brother" successful the archetypal saffron confederation successful Maharashtra. The undivided Shiv Sena was the elder partner, and arsenic the BJP could not judge this, it divided the party, helium said.
The Shinde-led Shiv Sena was not a enactment but was calved of "corrupt practices" of the Election Commission, Mr. Raut further said, adding that whenever the Supreme Court's determination connected the ineligible quality related to the Shiv Sena awesome and sanction comes, it volition beryllium successful favour of the Uddhav Thackeray-led party.
Sushma Andhare, a Sena (UBT) spokesperson, besides reacted to Sattar's statement. "We knew from the precise opening that the BJP is dilatory poison... But Sattar bhai, you were helpless due to the fact that you wanted power," she said.
