India, June 23 -- 6 MPs from Uddhav Thackeray team join Eknath Shinde party

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, it appears, had the last laugh again. Six out of nine Lok Sabha MPs from Team Uddhav Thackeray joined the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena in Mumbai on Monday evening, ending days of speculation. The architect, who had led a similar exercise in 2022, announced, "Operation Tiger is complete now." Operation Tiger was the name given to the Shiv Sena's move to engineer defections in the Thackeray camp and wean MPs over to its side.

"The six tigers are here. They have all now joined the real Shiv Sena family. I welcome them to the real Shiv Sena family," Shinde said on a social media platform. Omraje Nimbalkar (Dharashiv), ...