MUMBAI: In a fresh setback for the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, the state legislature secretariat has not invited it for Thursday's meeting of the business advisory committee to draft the schedule of the monsoon session of the state legislature that begins on August 17.
A senior legislature secretariat official told TOI that for the secretariat, the Shiv Sena led by chief minister Eknath Shinde is the real Shiv Sena. "For the legislature secretariat, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena is the real Shiv Sena, so there was no question of inviting a nominee of the Shiv Sena faction led by Uddhav Thackeray," he said.