Eknath Shinde filed a petition with the Supreme Court asking for a stay on the notifications that Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal had given to 16 renegade Shiv Sena MLAs.

Meanwhile, on Monday, June 27, renowned attorney Harish Salve will defend the Shinde camp before the supreme court.

Abhishek Manu Singhvi, the leader of the Congress, will represent the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Sena in court.

“I discovered that two writs filed today by the #Shinde gang are scheduled for hearing before the vacation bench tomorrow in SC! He had stated in a tweet that he was “happy to appear for #ShivSena headed by #Uddhavji and its office bearers.”

Other than that, Kapil Sibal, will be defending Deputy speaker.

Justices Surya Kant and J. B. Pardiwala will sit on a vacation bench to hear the case.

Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Harish Salve are set to exchange angry words in the courtroom.

To keep the State’s peace and order, Maharashtra’s governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has asked for the deployment of more central security forces. The occurrence happened in the midst of incendiary comments made by the Uddhav Thackeray camp.

In a letter to Union home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, he had written, “Offices and homes of some of the MLAs have been vandalised with the police being a mute spectator.” The dissident Shiv Sena MLAs received Y+ security protection from the Center as well.

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