Another chartered plane with four Maharashtra MLAs join Eknath Shinde camp
Guwahati, Jun 22: Another chartered plane with four MLAs from Maharashtra arrived here on Wednesday to join the rebel Shiv Sena legislators who reached the city earlier in the day, sources said.
The four MLAs -- Chandrakant Patil, Yogesh Kadam, Manjula Gavit and Gulabrao Patil -- arrived in the evening from Surat in Gujarat like the legislators who came here along with Maharashtra minister Eknath Shinde in the morning.
The
four
MLAs
arrived
in
Surat
in
the
afternoon
and
went
straight
to
the
airport
following
a
brief
stay
at
a
hotel.
Four
more
Maharashtra
MLAs
arrived
in
Guwahati
in
a
chartered
flight,
the
sources
said.
They were taken to a city hotel where the other MLAs are camping.
While Gavit and Chandrakant Patil are Independent MLAs, Kadam and Gulabrao Patil are Shiv Sena legislators.
The four MLAs arrived in Surat on Wednesday and subsequently, flew to Guwahati, the sources said.
Gulabrao Patil is the water supply and sanitation minister in the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government. He is the second cabinet minister to have joined Shinde after Horticulture Minister Sandipal Bhumre.
A group of rebel Maharashtra MLAs, led by Shinde, was flown to Guwahati on Wednesday morning.
They
were
taken
to
Surat
from
Mumbai
on
Tuesday
and
in
the
early
hours
of
Wednesday,
they
were
shifted
to
Guwahati.
One
of
the
MLAs
--
Nitin
Deshmukh
--
who
had
arrived
in
the
morning,
left
Guwahati
a
few
hours
later
for
Nagpur
in
a
chartered
flight.
Deshmukh later said he was with Shiv Sena chief Thackeray.