Bharat Gogawale, the chief whip of Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena group, filed an appeal with the Bombay high court against Maharashtra Speaker Rahul Narwekar's decision of a petition to disqualify 14 Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) MLAs. On January 10, the Speaker declared the Shinde group to be the true Shiv Sena.