MUMBAI: After days of uncertainty about which of the remaining Shiv Sena MLAs would jump ship to join rebel leader and now chief minister Eknath Shinde’s camp, voting for the speaker’s election on Sunday indicated that the positions were settled for now with 16 MLAs finally remaining in Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray’s camp. This clears the air on who is on which side for the confidence vote on Monday.
As the Uddhav Thackeray camp of Shiv Sena, the Congress and the NCP on Sunday issued separate whips for its members that directed them not to vote in favour of a confidence motion on Monday, political observers said a battle of the whips would be played out once again between the Shiv Sena factions on Monday.
