Will follow SC’s directions: Eknath Shinde at Guwahati airport

Minutes earlier than leaving Guwahati, insurgent Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde on Wednesday night mentioned the dissident MLAs will abide by the directives of the Supreme Court docket on the plea by his social gathering difficult the ground take a look at ordered by the Maharashtra governor.

Talking to reporters on the Guwahati airport, Shinde mentioned the insurgent Shiv Sena MLAs will work for the event of Maharashtra and the individuals of the state.

“The Supreme Court docket resolution (on the case) will come shortly from now. We are going to do as per the highest courtroom order,” he mentioned.

“We are going to attain Mumbai on Thursday and take part within the flooring take a look at. We are going to resolve our future technique after that,” he mentioned when requested if the dissidents will assist a BJP-led authorities.

The Supreme Court docket was listening to Shiv Sena chief whip Sunil Prabhu’s plea in opposition to the Maharashtra governor’s path to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities to take a flooring take a look at within the meeting on Thursday.

Shinde additionally vehemently denied that they’re “rebels”, asserting they’re the “actual Shiv Sainiks”.

“We’re Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sainiks. We are going to take ahead the Hindutva ideology. We are going to work for the event of Maharashtra and folks of the state,” he added.

The Maharashtra MLAs, led by Shinde, checked out of the lodge in Guwahati round 5 pm to achieve the airport.

After delaying their departure by round two hours, the dissident MLAs determined to go away for Goa, from the place they’ll go to Mumbai, sources mentioned.

The MLAs, their associates and a few members of the family left the Radisson Blu lodge in 4 air-conditioned luxurious buses of the Assam State

. The buses reached the airport, round 15 km away, below a heavy safety cowl.

Assam Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pijush Hazarika, Housing and City Affairs Minister Ashok Singhal, BJP MP Pallab Lochan Das, and MLAs Diganta Kalita and Sushanta Borgohain accompanied the Maharashtra MLAs to the airport.

Guwahati Police Commissioner Harmeet Singh, Joint Commissioner Partha Sarathi Mahanta and different senior officers had been additionally current on the airport. A whole bunch of policemen had been deployed on the airport for the reason that morning.

A chartered flight will take the legislators to Goa, official sources mentioned.

In what appears to be an obvious bid to topple the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities in Maharashtra, dissident legislators of Shiv Sena together with some Unbiased MLAs had been tenting in Guwahati, round 2,700 km away from Mumbai, since June 22.