{"id":25105,"date":"2026-06-22T17:44:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/op-tiger-a-success-shinde-welcomes-6-rebel-uddhav-mps-into-shiv-sena-fold-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:14:59","slug":"op-tiger-a-success-shinde-welcomes-6-rebel-uddhav-mps-into-shiv-sena-fold-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/op-tiger-a-success-shinde-welcomes-6-rebel-uddhav-mps-into-shiv-sena-fold-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Op tiger a success&#8217;: Shinde welcomes 6 rebel Uddhav MPs into Shiv Sena fold | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131908950,imgsize-87112,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/eknath-shinde-welcomes-rebel-sena-ubt-mps.jpg\" alt=\"'Op tiger a success': Shinde welcomes 6 rebel Uddhav MPs into Shiv Sena fold\" title=\"Eknath Shinde with rebel Sena (UBT) MPs\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Eknath Shinde with rebel Sena (UBT) MPs\">Eknath Shinde with rebel Sena (UBT) MPs<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: The split in Uddhav Thackeray&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shiv-sena\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Shiv Sena<\/a> (UBT) became official on Monday, with its six rebel Lok Sabha MPs joining the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>Thy were inducted by Shinde at a press conference in Mumbai, marking the dissidents&#8217; first joint public appearance since speculation about their switch began.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Addressing the media, Shinde called &#8220;Operation Tiger&#8221; a success.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>&#8220;Operation Tiger is now complete and successful,&#8221; the deputy chief minister declared, while also recalling the June 2022 split in the then-undivided Shiv Sena that he had led. In February 2023, the Election Commission recognised Shinde&#8217;s faction as the official Shiv Sena, while Uddhav Thackeray&#8217;s group was designated Shiv Sena (UBT).<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Of the six MPs, Nagesh Patil Ashtikar and Omraje Nimbalkar had already declared on Sunday that they were moving to the Shiv Sena led by Shinde. The others are Sanjay Haribhai Jadhav, Sanjay Dina Patil, Bhausaheb Rajaram Wakchaure, and Sanjay Uttamrao Deshmukh.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>The move reduces Sena (UBT)&#8217;s strength in the House to just three MPs, while giving the rebels the two-thirds support required to bypass the anti-defection law and stake claim to recognition as a separate faction.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/><span class=\"em\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">(Developing story)<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/split-2-0-official-flanked-by-eknath-shinde-six-rebel-sena-ubt-mps-join-shiv-sena\/articleshow\/131908393.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eknath Shinde with rebel Sena (UBT) MPs NEW DELHI: The split in Uddhav Thackeray&#8217;s Shiv Sena (UBT) became official on Monday, with its six rebel Lok Sabha MPs joining the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena.Thy were inducted by Shinde at a press conference in Mumbai, marking the dissidents&#8217; first joint public appearance since speculation about their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}