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Senior Uddhav Sena leader Anita Birje joins Shinde-led faction
August 11, 2024
Senior Shiv Sena-Uddhav Baladaheb Thackeray leader from Thane, Anita Birje, joined the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday night.
Shinde welcomed Birje into the Sena fold at a function attended by several workers of the party, mainly women.
Birje, who headed the women's wing of Shiv Sena-UBT in Thane, had been a loyalist of the late Sena veteran Anand Dighe, the political mentor of Shinde.
Birje, however, chose to remain with Uddhav Thackeray after the undivided Sena split in June 2022. -- PTI