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GUWAHATI: In all probability feeling bored after staying put at a lodge in Guwahati since Wednesday, Eknath Shinde on Friday went out on an day trip to an undisclosed location within the town. The surprising departure of the Shiv Sena chief, who’s main celebration’s rebellion MLAs, brought about speculations that he was once Maharashtra-bound. However he returned two and part hours later.
He had moved out of the five-star Radisson Blu in an SUV, accompanied through Assam BJP MP Pallab Lochan Das. He returned in a “multipurpose” non-public automotive of a senior police officer. Das was once no longer accompanying him now.
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Thriller shrouds over where within the town that Shinde visited. A Sena MLA advised newshounds out of doors the lodge that Shinde had long past out to supply his prayers on the Kamakhya temple. The similar, on the other hand, may no longer be showed from the temple government. “I’m ill. I completely do not know about it,” the temple’s leader priest Kabindra Prasad Sarma advised this newspaper. Some others on the temple additionally expressed lack of awareness.
The ruling BJP ministers, MLAs, leaders, in addition to the state equipment, are keeping up a stony silence at the Sena issues. “Issues are being monitored on the very best degree from Delhi. As such, no person is opening up,” a supply from the RSS mentioned.
The lodge, the place the MLAs are holed up, has been nearly was a fort with a posse of policemen guarding it round the clock and saved out of bounds of other folks.
The “Laxman Rekha” for media individuals, who’ve come from other states together with Maharashtra, has been drawn on the lodge’s front, some 150-200 metres away. Lunch is served to them through the lodge. No one is aware of the sponsor.
Just a make a choice few, together with BJP MPs, ministers and MLAs, have get right of entry to to the lodge. It isn’t entertaining recent bookings. Seventy rooms had been booked for the MLAs for seven days. The tariff for seven days, assets mentioned, is Rs 56 lakh. The entire price, together with meals, was once estimated to be Rs 1.12 crore.
A Shiv Sena employee, believed to be dependable to Maharashtra Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray, and several other protesting Assam Congress leaders had been picked up through the police from out of doors the lodge on Friday.
Protecting a placard, Sanjay Bhosale, who claimed he’s the deputy leader of Shiv Sena’s Satara district unit in Maharashtra, was once interesting to the Sena rebels to go back to Maharashtra and reconcile with Uddhav. However the police picked him up and took him to a police station.
A police officer advised newshounds the individual was once detained for interrogation. “We do not know who he’s and the place he has come from. It is now a delicate space and we’ve to make sure the protection of everybody. So, we will be able to communicate to him lovingly on the police station and to find out his main points,” the police officer mentioned.
The Congress leaders had been detained for staging a protest out of doors the lodge. The Congress mentioned its state leader Bhupen Borah had written to Shinde previous within the day soliciting for him to depart the state in conjunction with the guy MLAs in Assam’s larger passion.