Mumbai: Shiv Sena MLA and former Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray has recently sought to know what the rebel MLAs achieved by backstabbing the party leadership even as the party supported them in every possible way. He made the remarks at a public meeting in Jalgaon, the assembly constituency of rebel Shiv Sena leader and current state minister Gulabrao Patil, on Saturday. In June this year, Shiv Sena MLA Eknath Shinde and 39 other MLAs rebelled against the party leadership, leading to the fall of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, which included the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress. Eknath Shinde was sworn in as chief minister on June 30 along with BJP's Devendra Fadnavis.

With this, Eknath Shinde has recently expanded his cabinet, in which nine ministers of Shiv Sena and BJP were included. On Saturday, Aaditya Thackeray asked, 'We gave him a ticket, tried to get him elected and supported him in every possible way. Why did they stab us in the back? What did he achieve by becoming a traitor? Whatever they have got, they have got for themselves. They have not given anything back to the people.' Let us also inform you that in the ministry led by Eknath Shinde, Gulabrao Patil has retained the charge of the Department of Water Supply and Sanitation, which he also held in the previous MVA government.

In fact, 18 new ministers have been included in the Eknath Shinde cabinet of the Maharashtra government. Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari administered the oath of office to all the ministers at Raj Bhavan on August 9, 2022, and Shinde was sworn in as chief minister on June 30 after the fall of the Uddhav Thackeray government. Along with him, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as deputy chief minister.

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