Om Birla gives nod to merger of Uddhav rebels with Shinde Sena, TMC rebels with NCPI
The changes come ahead of the all-party meeting on Sunday morning and the monsoon session from Monday onwards.

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The changes come ahead of the all-party meeting on Sunday morning and the monsoon session from Monday onwards.
The circular showed Shiv Sena with 13 lawmakers and Sena (UBT) with three. The circular also added that 20 rebel TMC members will sit separately.
Shiv Sena (UBT) will challenge the Lok Sabha Speaker's approval of six MPs' merger with the Shinde faction, calling it illegal.
Lawyer argued that ‘merger’, a device originally meant to safeguard legislators’ rights of expression and intra-party dissent from the anti-defection law, has metamorphosed into a cover for horsetrading
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Arvind Sawant, who filed the petition, argued that the purported merger is ‘unconstitutional’ and ‘perverse’; the Bench, however, declined to give any such assurance and posted the matter for hearing after two weeks
The Supreme Court issued notice but refused interim relief on Sena (UBT)'s plea challenging the Speaker's recognition of six MPs' merger.