Sena appoints Vinayak Raut as leader of party in LS

Party chief Uddhav Thackeray has written to the Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs informing it about Vinayak Raut's appointment. (PTI Photo)

The Shiv Sena on Saturday appointed Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg MP Vinayak Raut as the leader of the party in the Lok Sabha.

A Sena spokesperson said party chief Uddhav Thackeray has written to the Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs informing it about Raut's appointment.

Raut (65) is a second-time MP from Ratnagiri- Sindhudurg in Maharashtra's Konkan region and has previously been MLA between 1999-2004 from Vile Parle in Mumbai and was MLC since 2012 before being elected to the Lok Sabha in the 2014 polls.

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