Amid a raging row across the Shiv Sena get together’s identify and ballot image, Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) faction chief Sanjay Raut on Tuesday wrote to Mumbai Police alleging menace to his life from Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s son, PTI reported.
“Lok Sabha member Shrikant Shinde (Eknath Shinde‘s son) has given a supari (contract) to kill me to a Thane-based legal Raja Thakur. I’ve confirmed info relating to the identical. I’m informing you as a accountable citizen,” Raut stated in his letter to the Mumbai Police Commissioner.
Copies of the letter have been additionally despatched to Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who heads the House Division, and the police of Thane metropolis.
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Reacting to the claims, Sanjay Shirsath, an MLA from Shinde’s group, referred to as the letter a “low cost stunt” by Raut and stated a probe could possibly be launched.
“Raut is doing is an affordable stunt to achieve sympathy. There isn’t a doubt that there needs to be a radical probe into the matter. Nonetheless, don’t forget that Raut does numerous stunts, which don’t have any substance. I consider Dr Shrikant Shinde would by no means ever do such a factor, nonetheless a probe may be initiated,” PTI quoted Shirsath as saying.
Aaditya Thackeray, MLA and son of former CM Uddhav Thackeray, stated the grievance needs to be taken critically.
“Sadly, these traitor MLAs (from Shinde camp) will not be being managed in any respect. One MLA had opened hearth in Mahim space of Mumbai, however no motion has been taken in any respect,” Thackeray stated.
The event comes over a confrontation between the 2 Sena factions after the Election Fee’s determination to recognise the Shinde group as the actual Shiv Sena. The ballot panel additionally allowed it to make use of the “bow and arrow” image in elections.
In one other blow to the Thackeray camp, the Lok Sabha Secretariat on Tuesday allotted the Shiv Sena workplace in Parliament Home to the Shinde-led faction.
Nonetheless, the Uddhav Thackeray faction has challenged the Election Fee’s determination in Supreme Court docket, which can hear the matter on Wednesday.
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