Shiv Sena changes its Lok Sabha chief whip

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 6

After a mass rebellion by MLAs, the Shiv Sena, fearing a revolt in the Lok Sabha, today appointed a new chief whip in the Lower House. In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, Shiv Sena’s parliamentary party leader Sanjay Raut said, “It is to inform you that the Shiv Sena parliamentary party has nominated Rajan Vichare, MP (LS), as the chief whip in the Lok Sabha in place of Bhavana Gawali, MP (LS), with immediate effect.”

Sena has 18 members in the Lok Sabha and three in the Rajya Sabha. The new Sena chief whip is a Lok Sabha MP from, the area of Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde. Gawali, an MP from Yavatmal-Washim segment, had recently suggested that the Shiv Sena should go with its natural ally, the BJP.

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