WhoSachin Ahir was elected the deputy chairman of Maharashtra Legislative Council on Wednesday, a day after he quit the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena for the faction led by Eknath Shinde.
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Ahir was elected to the post unanimously after Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) candidate JM Abhyankar withdrew his nomination, the request for which was made by parliamentary affairs minister Chandrakant Patil.
In a double whammy for the Uddhav Sena in Maharashtra, Sachin Ahir left the camp and joined hands with the Eknath Shinde-led Sena on Tuesday, and filed his nomination for the post he got elected to today. The development came when the Uddhav Sena was already trying to manage a crisis triggered by six of its MPs joining the rival Shinde camp.
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