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Eknath Shinde Visits Kamakhya Temple, To Return To Mumbai On Thursday

Dissident Shiv Sena leader Eknath🦂 Shinde visited the Kamakhya T🦋emple, Guwahati, to seek blessings and told the reporters outside that he would be returning to Mumbai the next day.

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 Dissident Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde on Wednesday ste💫pped out of Radisson Blu hotel here, where he and other rebel Maharashtra MLAs are camping since June 22, and visited Kamakhya temple to 𝓡seek blessings.

Shinde told reporters outside the temple that he will return to Mumbai on Thursday to "complete the formalities". Implying he would participate in moves to form a new gover🧜nment.

He along with two more MLAs from the 𝄹western state visited the temple atop Neꦏelachal hill on the bank of Brahmaputra early morning.

Shinde and✅ his colleagues were accompanied by Assam BJP MLA Sushanta Borgohain, who has been with them since the dissidents landed at Guwahati airport.

"I visited the Kamakhya temple f🍷or happiness and prosperity of Maharashtra. I seek blessings of Maa Kamakhya," Shinde t🅷old reporters outside the temple.

When asked༺ about his next step, the rebel leader said: "We will return to Mumbai tomorrow to comp🤪lete the necessary formalities."

In what seems to be an apparent bid to topple the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra, dissident legislators of Shiv Sena, which heads the ruling coalition, along with some Independents have been camping in Guwahati, around 2,700 km away from ꦡMumbai, since June 22.