Mumbai: about five months later To take shelter As Shiv Sena rebels in Guwahati, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and legislators from his camp will return to the Assam city on November 21 to visit the Kamakhya temple as their prayers at the temple to form the government are fulfilled.
Shinde will go to Guwahati for a day along with 39 MLAs.
“When we were in Guwahati and the political situation in Maharashtra was in flux, we all went to the Kamakhya Devi temple. We prayed that Eknath Shinde should become the next chief minister of Maharashtra.”
“We were all very happy to get together and were confident that we would be able to form the government on our own terms. We would like to thank the Goddess for fulfilling our wishes.”
In June, Shinde, a trusted aide of then Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and a senior Shiv Sena leader, broke away from the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, taking several MLAs with him. The MVA government consisted of the Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress.
The number of MLAs in the Shinde camp kept increasing over a period of nine days, which eventually led to the fall of the MVA government and draw a vertical split In Shiv Sena.
Shinde and his loyal MLAs first traveled to Surat before leaving Guwahati, He made his way to Goa before heading back to Mumbai to form the government with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Shinde became CM and Devendra Fadnavis as Deputy CM.
Gradually, 13 out of 19 Shiv Sena MPs also pledged their loyalty to Shinde, with the latest Gajanan KirtikarWho was a senior leader and party stalwart in the Shiv Sena faction led by Uddhav Thackeray.
Sources in the Shinde camp, however, said that so far the MPs have not been invited to visit the Kamakhya temple.
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