Shinde became chief minister after toppling the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government in June 2022 (Pic/Eknath Shinde's team)
A section of MLAs of the undivided Shiv Sena, led by then-Cabinet minister Eknath Shinde, had rebelled against Thackeray's leadership in June last year, leading to the collapse of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition government. The rebel MLAs then teamed up with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form a government under Shinde's leadership (Pic/Eknath Shinde's team)
Originally hailing from Satara district in western Maharashtra, Thane district, a Sena stronghold, is now Shinde's political home (File Pic)
Shinde became a corporator in the Thane Municipal Corporation in 1997. In 2004, he was elected as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, and since then he has been a legislator for four consecutive terms- 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019 (File Pic)
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