Om Birla approves merger of 6 Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs with Shinde camp; TMC rebels get separate seating in LS

Mumbai, 18/7: Just two days before the commencement of Monsoon session in Parliament, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla approved the merger of six MPs from Shiv Sena (UBT) with Eknath Shinde’s faction.

The Speaker also approved separate seating in the Lok Sabha for 20 MPs who broke away from TMC to form NCPI (Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI).