The Shiv Sena apparently supported Droupadi Murmu for the Presidential elections because she is a tribal and not as a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate, a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader said.
The Shiv Sena, the NCP, and the Congress are constituents of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), which was in power till the last month before the rebellion by Shiv Sena's Eknath Shinde and most of the Sena MLAs led to its collapse.
