Newsmakers of the Week | Sena’s Sanjay Raut, former CMs Digambar Kamat & Panneerselvam | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express

From Lok Insaaf Party chief and former MLA from Ludhiana’s Atam Nagar, Simarjeet Singh Bains, to IAS officer Ashwini Bhide, here are the Newsmakers of the Week.

Shiv Sena MP who is now being blamed by rebel MLAs for “damaging” the party, former Tamil Nadu chief minister who was expelled from AIADMK, the former chief minister of Goa who has been accused by his own party — the Congress — of hatching a conspiracy to engineer defections, and the Bains brothers in Punjab who used muscle and might to run the show — we bring to you the Newsmakers of the Week.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut

Throughout the two-and-a-half years of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra, if there was one politician from Maharashtra who managed to constantly stay in the news, it was Sanjay Raut, the Shiv Sena’s chief spokesperson and its four-term Rajya Sabha member. While many saw Raut’s hand in Uddhav Thackeray’s 2019 decision to break the Sena’s 25-year alliance with the BJP and join the MVA along with its traditional foes, the NCP and Congress, he is now being blamed by rebel Sena MLAs for “damaging” the party. As the long-standing associate editor of Saamana, the party mouthpiece, Raut was until 2019 known mostly for his acerbic editorials, but came into the limelight after the Assembly elections that year. Read Vallabh Ozarkar’s report on the man who is now under the ED scanner in an alleged money laundering case.

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam

Till the end, O Panneerselvam or OPS kept fighting, in the party and outside it, from the High Court to the Supreme Court. This week, the 71-year-old seemed to have finally hit a dead end, after being expelled from the AIADMK along with his aides. Simmering for long, the latest crisis in the AIADMK started bubbling last month after the E Palaniswami or EPS faction proposed that the party go back to a single-leader system to check its successive poll debacles since 2019. The current system, with OPS as coordinator and EPS as joint coordinator, had been introduced in 2017 to end disputes arising after Jayalalithaa’s death. At the time, OPS had only 11 MLAs but was propped up by the BJP, which nosed its way into a party still reeling from Jayalalithaa’s death. He was also seen as close to RSS ideologue S Gurumurthy, and later Sasikala. Now though, OPS stands alone, with BJP leaders admitting that there are no channels open for him to join them.

https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/newsmakers-sanjay-raut-digambar-kamat-panneerselvam-simarjeet-bains-ashwini-bhide-8033800/


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