

"If Uddhav Thackeray supports the NDA candidate, I will welcome such a decision. Queried on whether MLAs and MPs of the Uddhav Thackeray camp will support Murmu in the Presidential election, Danve said he thinks so. In a relief to Shiv Sena MLAs of the Uddhav Thackeray faction, the Supreme Court on Monday asked newly-elected Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar not to proceed with the plea seeking their disqualification which was sought by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's group on the ground of defying party whip during the trust vote and the election of the speaker. "I am confident that the Supreme Court and the Election Commission will rule in favour of the Shinde faction," he said when asked about which faction will be allotted the Shiv Sene'a bow and arrow poll symbol. The Shiv Sena has 18 MPs in the Lok Sabha.ĭanve also said the Shinde faction is the true Shiv Sena as he has the support of two-thirds of total (55) MLAs. "12 MPs of Shiv Sena are ready to leave the party and are on the verge of joining the Eknath Shinde camp," the Jalna MP said. Speaking to reporters here in Maharashtra, Danve also said Shiv Sena might support National Democratic Alliance (NDA's) Presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu given that she is tribal. Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Raosaheb Danve on Monday claimed 12 MPs of Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena are in touch with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde faction and are ready to cross over. Shinde was sworn in as the chief minister on June 30 with Bharatiya Janata Party's Devendra Fadnavis as Deputy CM, after the Thackeray-led MVA government collapsed last month. "Shiv Sena cadres in Aurangabad along with senior leaders have extended their support to Uddhav Thackeray," said Aurangabad city Shiv Sena president Balasaheb Thorat. We will hand over these bond papers to Shiv Sena," Jaywant Oak, Aurangabad district deputy president, told PTI.Īurangabad city unit of Shiv Sena met Uddhav Thackeray at his private residence 'Matoshree' in Mumbai.


The party has not ordered us to do this but we are doing it spontaneously. "We have prepared more than 100 notarised bond papers in the Narli Baugh area of Aurangabad city. The Sena workers are pledging their loyalty to Uddhav Thackeray on bond papers, each valued Rs 100, and getting them notarized. The ECB is due to meet next week and markets have been hoping for more detail on what the bank calls its 'anti-fragmentation tool', which the bank hopes will keep yield spreads within acceptable level as it starts to raise interest rates.A local leader said on Monday that they launched this drive "spontaneously" in view of the rebellion by Eknath Shinde and other MLAs against the Sena leadership. ING analysts Francesco Pesole and Antoine Bouvet pointed out in a note on Thursday that the spread - a rough proxy of Eurozone breakup risk - is now at a level where the European Central Bank has tended to intervene verbally. At the same time, pressure for early elections is also coming from the center-right parties backing Draghi, given that opinion polls suggest they would strengthen their positions.Īfter an early bounce, the rally appeared to run out of steam quickly, leaving the spread between Italy's 10-year yield and its German equivalent still over 220 basis points. M5S is the largest party in the Senate and the second-largest in the Chamber of Deputies, and its absence undermines Draghi's claim to be leading a government of national unity. However, the divisions that led to the defection of M5S are real and deep, and it is unclear that Draghi - who has no popular mandate of his own - will carry on. Mattarella's action ensures that the outcome most feared by financial markets - Draghi's departure and early elections - won't happen in the immediate future. It had fallen below $1 for the first time in 20 years on Draghi's reaction to the vote. FTSE MIB stock futures, meanwhile, were likewise up 0.2%, after falling over 3% on Thursday, while the euro rose back above parity with the dollar to trade at $1.0014.
