Expelled Shiv Sena leader Narayan Rane on Friday said the Shiv Sena Legislature Party will file a petition with the Maharashtra assembly speaker seeking disqualification of those party legislators who did not attend a meeting convened by him.
Only 10 out of the 63 Sena MLAs turned up for the meeting. Two MLAs conveyed their inability to attend the meeting but assured their support, Rane said.
Rane was expelled by the party on Sunday. He had then claimed that he had the support of 42 legislators. He had also blasted the party executive president Uddhav Thackeray, his aide Milind Narvekar and Sena leader Subhash Desai for "conspiring against him for the last four-five years."
Rane said he has issued a whip to all Sena legislators to be present on the first day of the monsoon session of the legislature beginning July 11.
Terming his group as the 'real Shiv Sena' and the one led by Ramdas Kadam as a 'splinter group', Rane claimed that at least 26 more MLAs from the Kadam group had expressed solidarity with him. Kadam was elected as the new leader of the Shiv Sena legislature party replacing Rane, a few days back.
Rane alleged that "the MLAs are being kept in captivity; their mobile phones have been snatched; and they are deprived of food; yet they have assured that they will join me once they are free."
"Eventually, you will see that, except for four to five party MLAs from Mumbai, the rest will join me in the next few months," Rane claimed.
In a show of strength, the Shiv Sena had on Thursday paraded 52 MLAs, owing allegiance to Bal Thackeray, before Assembly Speaker Babasaheb Kupekar.