The Monsoon Session opens Sunday with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla approving the merger of six Shiv Sena (UBT) rebels into the Eknath Shinde faction, boosting the latter's strength to 13 MPs. This gives the Shinde camp major political legitimacy ahead of a bruising legislative schedule.
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For merger: The BJP and its NDA allies celebrate the Speaker's ruling, seeing it as a validation of the Shinde group's legitimacy and a blow to...
