The Shinde-Fadnavis government lives one more day, but CM has yet to emerge from the BJP shadow, check internal dissident and neutralize sympathy for Sena Thackeray’s faction
RELEASE DATE: May 29, 2023 | UPDATE: May 19, 2023 14:50 IST
DOES THE SMILE LAST? CM Eknath Shinde with Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. (Photo by ANI)
to meeven when things seem to be going well for Eknath Shinde, the sense of uneasiness refuses to leave him. He could have become chief minister, but he has to constantly fight BJP’s attempts to undermine him and shake off the feeling that he is in power but not in power. Again, the Elections Commission of India (ECI) may have granted his faction official Shiv Sena status, and allowed them to retain the party’s bow and arrow symbol, but it is Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray’s faction that garners all the sympathy. And on May 11, a five-judge constitutional bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, offered his government a reprieve by refusing to restore the status quo ante and reinstate Thackeray as Chief Minister, as he voluntarily resigned the day before his was asked to prove its majority in the House. But that’s not the end of Shinde’s troubles.
