Mumbai, July 09: Former president of the MNS women wing Shweta Parulkar today joined Shiv Sena.
Parulkar met Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray at his residence in suburban Bandra and later announced that she had joined MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s former party.
Raj set up MNS in 2006 after parting ways from the Sena in 2005.
“Leaving MNS was not a sudden decision. I had been thinking of the same for some time as working atmosphere in that party is not conducive,” Parulkar told.
Sena spokesperson Neelam Gorhe confirmed Parulkar’s joining the party.
The MNS chief had last month dissolved the party’s trade union and women wing. There were reports that Parulkar, who unsuccessfully contested the recent Lok Sabha poll from Mumbai South-Central as MNS nominee no longer enjoyed patronage of Raj.
Though Raj said the decision to dissolve the wings was taken to reshuffle the outfits, MNS sources said the action was taken because Raj was fed up of the infights and intra-party squabbles.
Parulkar was the president of Maharashtra Navnirman Mahila Sena and was also MNS general secretary.
–PTI