A day after the declaration of the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the ‘real’ Shiv Sena by Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal remarked that the entire scenario was a pre-scripted play, labelling it a farce with no available recourse.
Wednesday’s ruling, favouring Shinde’s faction as the legitimate political party, solidified Mr. Shinde’s position, and enhanced his political influence within the ruling coalition, comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar group), just ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha election.
Mr. Sibal expressed his views on the matter, highlighting the tragic state of this ‘mother of democracy.’ “Speaker (as Tribunal): Shindes faction is real Sena. The play was scripted long ago. We watch the farce being played out with no recourse,” he said in a post on the microblogging site X (formerly Twitter). “That is the tragedy of this ‘mother of democracy’,” the former Union Minister said.
