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The Shiv Sena on Thursday endorsed Union home minister Amit Shah's view that alleged inflammatory statements made by Sharjeel Imam, an anti- Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) activist, were dangerous.

Attacking the Centre for handing over the probe into the sensitive Elgar Parishad case to the NIA, the Shiv Sena on Wednesday invoked federalism in the country and accused the Modi government of "interfering" in the affairs of "non-BJP" Maharashtra.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar has said that many ministers in the Shiv Sena-led coalition government in Maharashtra do not belong to political families and have earned their position purely on merit.

Two days after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray declared his support to the Modi government over eviction of Bangladeshi and Pakistani infiltrators, the Shiv Sena on Saturday said that Muslim infiltrators from these countries should be thrown out of India.

Refuting the allegations that the former BJP-Shiv Sena government had conducted phone-tapping of opposition leaders, former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government could order a probe into it by any agency of its choice.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Shiv Sena's ally in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government cries foul over withdrawal of security of the party chief Sharad Pawar's security at his official residence in New Delhi. The party has alleged that Centre for playing ''vendetta politics.''

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which lost power to the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra, is divided over extending support to the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday claimed that during the Maharashtra Assembly elections last year BJP lost the power as Muslims did not vote for it. ''Minorities vote for parties which can defeat BJP. During elections, the minorities decide whom to defeat. In the state, the change of guard which we are seeing is due to that,'' Pawar said at the party's minority cell meeting.

Minister of Tourism and Environment in father Uddhav Thackeray's Cabinet, Aaditya Thackeray shared a throwback picture with his grandfather and Shiv Sena founder Balabasheb Thackeray, on his 94th birth anniversary.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Thursday that representatives of minority communities had conveyed that they would not mind if his party joined hands with the Shiv Sena, but the BJP must be kept away from power in Maharashtra.