National News
Shiv Sena to go it alone in 2019 elections
Yuva Sena president Aaditya Thackeray was also elevated into the top tier of Shiv Sena's leadership hierarchy as he has been made a member of party's National Executive.
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday announced that it will contest the 2019 general assembly elections and state assembly elections on their own, effectively bringing down the curtains on its long-time alliance with the BJP. The decision was taken at the party’s National Executive meet organised at the Worli Sports Complex in Mumbai.
Meanwhile, Yuva Sena president Aaditya Thackeray was elevated to the top tier of Shiv Sena’s leadership after he was made a member of the party’s National Executive.
Shiv Sena minister Eknath Shinde, MPs Chandrakant Kaire, Anant Geere and Anatrao Adsul were also elevated as leaders of the party, taking the number of designated leaders to 13.
Currently, apart from veterans like Manohar Joshi, Sudhir Joshi, Subhash Desai, Diwakar Raote, four others are holding the posts of Sena leaders.
In December last year, Aaditya had announced that the Shiv Sena will go national.
“Firstly, we are going national. As we fought elections in Gujarat and Goa, we will fight elections in Rajasthan next year and (in) Madhya Pradesh. In UP, Bihar and Kashmir, we have received a good number of votes. We may contest in Kerala too,” he had said in an interview to The Indian Express.
Another resolution which was passed at the meeting was to give complete loan waiver to farmers in Maharashtra as well as the implementation of recommendations by Swaminathan Commission for agrarian reforms.
