Mumbai, June 22 -- Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Monday launched a strong attack on rebel party MPs and also slammed Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.

In a post on X, Raut termed the party rebels as "traitors".

"...Chitragupta has begun tallying their sins! Their next generation will say 'my father was a traitor, my husband was a traitor, my grandfather was a traitor'" he alleged in the post.

Later, speaking to reporters at a meeting of Shiv Sena (UBT) MLAs, Raut intensified his criticism of Shinde. "Eknath Shinde has given birth to six traitors. A caesarean surgery will have to be performed further for things to be properly managed," he remarked.

Earlier in the day, Raut accused rebel MPs of abandoning the ideology...