Even as the Thackeray-led group is holding its ground in the Supreme Court saying they are the parent party and want the other group led by CM Eknath Shinde to be derecognised, Maharashtra Assembly speaker Rahul Narvekar said ahead of the budget session on Friday, that he considered only one Shiv Sena as official. He also said he considered all its 56 MLAs, including both these groups, as one legislative party.

So far, two separate Sena groups were working in the legislature, with Shinde’s in majority in the Assembly and Uddhav Thackeray’s the largest in the Council. The impact, if any, in the upper house, doesn’t affect the stability of the government but is limited to the post of the Opposition leader and deputy chairman’s posts (which the Thackeray group hold). The 12 Sena members have sworn on affidavit that they back Thackeray.