{"id":316231,"date":"2019-10-31T09:26:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T09:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316231"},"modified":"2019-10-31T09:26:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T09:26:50","slug":"maharashtra-eknath-shinde-elected-as-shiv-sena-legislature-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-eknath-shinde-elected-as-shiv-sena-legislature-party-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra: Eknath Shinde elected as Shiv Sena\u00a0legislature party leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316232 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/ek-nath-shinde.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/ek-nath-shinde.jpg 806w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/ek-nath-shinde-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/ek-nath-shinde-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/ek-nath-shinde-696x446.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/ek-nath-shinde-655x420.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/>The Shiv Sena MLAs on Thursday elected senior leader Eknath Shinde as the leader of the legislative party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, his candidature was proposed by party leader Aaditya Thackeray and all-party leaders agreed to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At their first formal meeting, Shiv Sena MLAs met today afternoon to choose their legislative leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2009, Shinde won the Assembly election seat from Thane&#8217;s Kopri-Panchpakhadi and again in 2014, Shinde won the same seat with huge margin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shiv Sena leaders including Aditya Thackeray, Eknath Shinde among others will meet Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at 3.30 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shiv Sena MLAs on Thursday elected senior leader Eknath Shinde as the leader of the legislative party. According to the sources, his candidature was proposed by party leader Aaditya Thackeray and all-party leaders agreed to it. At their first formal meeting, Shiv Sena MLAs met today afternoon to choose their legislative leader. In 2009, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[11715,1467,513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316233,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316231\/revisions\/316233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}