‘Gang war in Cabinet?’: Eknath Shinde skips Maharashtra session, lands in Delhi to meet Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari; Congress smells cracks in Mahayuti | Mumbai News
MUMBAI: Amid the monsoon session of the state legislature, there were reports that Dy CM Eknath Shinde visited New Delhi late on Wednesday. Sena minister Uday Samant said Shinde may have met top netas in Delhi on the occasion of Guru Purnima on Thursday. Congress MLA Nana Patole alleged that Shinde may have gone there to “resolve the gang war going on in the state cabinet.” Shinde reportedly met Union home minister Amit Shah and ministers Nitin Gadkari and Rajnath Singh. Political observers said that Shinde’s visit, at a time when his Shiv Sena is facing controversies and when there is talk of a Shiv Sena (UBT)-MNS alliance, is significant.“We don’t know whom Eknath Shinde met in Delhi. But to meet netas in Delhi for Mumbai’s and Maharashtra’s development is not wrong. It is our collective responsibility. He must have gone to Delhi for this,” Samant said.“What is going on in Maharashtra? Big questions are being raised,” Patole said.Shinde also skipped the opening of the new Carnac Bridge, now renamed Sindoor Bridge after ‘Operation Sindoor’.
