Vowing to fight legal traps laid by the Shiv Sena leadership, the party rebels in Guwahati have spilled more beans, but reiterated that they were still in the party, and that they will not withdraw support from the government or merge with any other party. They expected CM Uddhav Thackeray, who has hardened his stand further, to consider their demand of quitting the Maha Vikas Aghadi government and refused to speak a word of disrespect against the leadership, while ranting against the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress.

In the group’s first official online press conference, the rebel camp spokesperson and MLA Deepak Kesarkar announced that there was no question of using a brand of late Balasaheb Thackeray to name their group, because they were still in the Sena. “If we have used the party’s name to win elections, also consider our electoral merit and goodwill that has made us successful. Not all get elected only because they represent a certain party. There are many in the Assembly who can win from any party because of their work in their respective constituencies,” Kesarkar said in response to the Sena’s national executive body resolution on Saturday that no other person or group can use Balasaheb Thackeray’s name.