Rebel Sena MLAs leave Guwahati hotel; head to Goa

Guwahati: The rebel Shiv Sena MLAs of Maharashtra and their leader Eknath Shinde on Wednesday left Guwahati’s Radisson Blu hotel where they were staying for the last eight days.
The Sena legislators left the hotel premises in three luxury Assam State Transport Corporation buses — one carrying their luggage, and the other buses transporting the rebels and their leader Shinde.
The MLAs have left the city amid tight security. They are reportedly heading to Goa from here.
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At the airport, the Sena MLAs were heard raising slogans such as “Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki Jai” (Hail Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj), and “Eknath Shinde sahab, tum aage badho, hum tumhare saath hain” (Eknath Shinde, you go ahead, we are with you).
“We are not rebels. We are Shiv Sena. We are carrying forward the ideology and agenda of Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena. We will work for the development of Maharashtra following the Hindutva ideology,” Shinde told the journalists at the airport.