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MUMBAI: Just once we thought Maharashtra politics has already seen sufficient excessive drama prior to now two days, right here comes information of extra.
Two Shiv Sena MLAs Nitin Deshmukh and Kailash Patil ‘escaped’ from Eknath Shinde’s camp in Surat and reached Maharashtra to increase help to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. It isn’t identified whether or not Shinde camp’s subsequent shift to Guwahati adopted this growth.
Nitin Deshmukh went on to even accuse the Gujarat police of making an attempt to kill him with toxic injections on his return. He stated he’s a hardcore Shiv Sainik and with the Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. “I was misguided and taken to Surat. I tried to run away, but Gujarat police stopped me,” Deshmukh claimed.
He stated he has no well being points, however a health care provider in Gujarat advised him that he had suffered a coronary heart drawback.
“I was surprised and asked many questions but they could not give me a satisfying answer. They then gave me some injections that left me uncomfortable. There were 200-250 Gujarat policemen who followed me. Some of them even beat me when I tried to escape. I am happy that I left them and came back to Maharashtra. I am a Shiv Sena MLA because of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and the support of Shiv Sainiks. I appeal to other MLAs who are now in Guwahati to also come back to Mumbai and be with CM Uddhav Thackeray,” Deshmukh added.
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Earlier, Nitin Deshmukh’s spouse had lodged a person lacking grievance on the Akola police station.
The different returning Shiv Sena MLA Kailash Patil too stated that he had been misguided. He stated Eknath Shinde had invited him to what he believed was a cocktail party at Thane. But quickly he discovered himself being taken to Gujarat.
Patil stated he walked for greater than 4 kilometres and even hopped on to a personal truck and different automobiles to return to Mumbai.
He defined the second he realised that Shinde was as much as no good “I asked the bus driver to stop saying I had to take a leak. I then ran into the dark woods and covered myself behind a bush. Then, using the cover of darkness, I ran to the border of Maharashtra and Gujarat — Talasari. I walked in the night and took the private bus to reach Mumbai.”
“Then at one place, I even called CM Uddhav Thackeray and informed him about Shinde’s plot. I am relieved that I am back in Mumbai and with my leader Uddhav Thackeray,” Patil added.
Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut had additionally alleged that the Sena MLAs had been kidnapped through the use of power with the assistance of BJP. He puzzled how the Shiv Sena MLAs had been taken to the lodge in Surat after which to Guwahati?
“It shows the BJP’s active logistical help. However, we will outlive this crisis as well. Shiv Sena has seen such revolts in the past also. Nothing will damage Sena. We are hardcore Balasaheb Thackeray sainiks,” Raut stated.
Eknath Shinde was categorical in dismissing the allegations made by the ‘returning’ Shiv Sena MLAs. He stated he was actually the one who had allowed them to return to Mumbai. He insisted all of the MLAs who had stayed again with him are doing wonderful and are completely satisfied.
