Shiv Sena names Gajanan Kirtikar as parliamentary party leader, ousts Sanjay Raut
New Delhi, Mar 23: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena has sacked Sanjay Raut as the leader of its parliamentary party and appointed Lok Sabha MP Gajanan Kirtikar as his successor.
In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, Shinde, who is chief leader of the Shiv Sena, said Kirtikar has been appointed as the leader of the Shiv Sena Parliamentary Party.
Shiv Sena leaders on Thursday felicitated Kirtikar at the parliamentary party office located on the third floor of the Parliament building.
Of the 18 Shiv Sena members in the Lok Sabha, four have their loyalties with Uddhav Thackeray, who lost control of the party to Shinde.
Shinde had split the Shiv Sena last year accusing Thackeray of compromising with the core ideals of the party and joining hands with arch rivals Congress and NCP to form the government in Maharashtra.
Last month, the Election Commission recognised the Shinde-led faction as the real Shiv Sena and allocated the name and the poll symbol to it.
The Shiv Sena has three members in the Rajya Sabha Sanjay Raut, Anil Desai and Priyanka Chaturvedi who owe their allegiance to Thackeray.
शिवसेना पक्षाच्या संसदीय गटनेतेपदी नियुक्ती करुन माझ्यावर विश्वास दाखवल्याबद्दल शिवसेना मुख्यनेते मुख्यमंत्री @mieknathshinde तसेच संसदेतील सर्व शिवसेनेतील सहकाऱ्यांचे मी व्यक्तिशः आभार मानतो. @shewale_rahul @DrSEShinde pic.twitter.com/fZzYztX778
— Gajanan Kirtikar -गजानन कीर्तिकर (@GajananKirtikar) March 23, 2023
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Ranchi: Temple guard bludgeoned to death during robbery attempt, 3 held
Ranchi (PTI): A 60-year-old security guard of a temple in Ranchi was bludgeoned to death with a stone during a robbery attempt, police said on Saturday.
The incident happened late on Thursday at the Jagannath Temple in the Dhurwa Smart City area, they said.
"Three persons were arrested on Friday for killing the security guard. They confessed to the crime and told police that the victim had identified them. Therefore, in fear of being caught, they killed him by attacking him with a stone on his head," SSP Rakesh Ranjan said.
"Thereafter, they took money from the donation box and fled the scene. Two of them have criminal antecedents," he added.
Ranjan said the investigators recovered Rs 3 lakh in cash that had been robbed, the stone with blood-stained marks, and the iron rod used to break open the lock of the donation box kept there.
An FIR in this regard was lodged at the Dhurwa police station, he said, adding that the accused were sent to judicial custody by a court.
