Trinamool Congress protest outside Guwahati hotel hosting Shiv Sena rebels
Maharashtra's rebel MLAs including Eknath Shinde are stayed in the hotel.
Trinamool Congress on Thursday staged a protest outside the hotel in Guwahati where the Shiv Sena rebels are staying since Wednesday. The Shiv Sena rebels include Eknath Shinde among others. The protest was led by Trinamool’s Assam chief Ripun Bora.
The protesters shouted slogans outside the Radisson Blu hotel in Guwahati accusing Assam’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of using its resources in helping the Shiv Sena stage a coup to topple the Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra. The protesters alleged that the state government had done nothing to address the sufferings of the flood-hit people in the state. The rising waters of the Brahmaputra and Barak rivers have caused massive floods in the state, affecting over 50 lakh people and killing nearly a hundred.
There are about 40 MLAs in the hotel supporting Eknath Shinde, who are splitting the party without having to get disqualified under anti-defection law. The BJP has said though that the party has nothing to do with the recent political developments in Maharashtra, and that it is an “internal matter of the Shiv Sena”. Shinde and his group of rebel MLAs had first moved to Surat in BJP-ruled Gujarat. Subsequently, they were flown by special flights to Assam, also ruled by the BJP.
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