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|position = {{nowrap|[[Right-wing politics|Right-wing]]<ref name="SS5"><br />—{{cite news |title=Understanding Maharashtra's Political Game of Thrones |newspaper=[[the Diplomat]] |date=2019-12-09 |author=Siddharthya Roy |url=https://thediplomat.com/2019/12/understanding-maharashtras-political-game-of-thrones/ |access-date=2020-01-04 |quote=The ball now was in the court of the BJP's oldest ally in the state as well as at the central level: the Shiv Sena, a regionalist right-wing force, which won 56 seats. }} <br />—{{cite news |title=Indian Citizenship Row Did Modi, Shah lose the plot? |newspaper=[[BBC]] |date=2020-01-04 |author=Malladi Rama Rao |url=http://asiantribune.com/node/93310 |access-date=2020-01-04 |quote=“Rather than uniting Hindus against Muslims, what the duo have succeeded in doing is to alienate their own hard-core allies, namely the right-wing Shiv Sena and those erring Hindutva fans that had elected the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Assam. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103232708/http://asiantribune.com/node/93310 |archive-date=3 January 2020 |url-status=dead }}<br />—{{cite news |title=Maharashtra: The unravelling of India's BJP and Shiv Sena alliance |newspaper=Asian Tribune |date=2019-07-18 |author=Soutik Biswas |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50402748 |access-date=2020-01-04 |quote=Consider this. The 53-year-old Shiv Sena is a stridently right-wing Hindu party. It began as an ethnic, nativist outfit to support the interests of Mumbai's Marathi-speaking people.}}</ref> {{Nowrap|to [[Far-right politics|far-right]]<ref name="SS7"><br />—{{cite news|work=[[BBC]]|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-34569574|title=Shiv Sena attack derails India-Pakistan cricket talks|date=19 October 2015}}<br />—{{cite news|work=[[The Straits Times]]|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/hindu-nationalists-in-india-renew-demand-for-temple|date=7 December 2018|title=Hindu nationalists in India renew demand for temple}}

<br />—{{cite news|work=[[The Express Tribune]]|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/1825653/9-shiv-sena-workers-commit-suicide-women-enter-prominent-kerala-temple/|title=Shiv Sena workers to 'commit suicide' if women enter prominent Kerala temple|date=15 October 2018}}<br />—{{cite news|work=[[Scroll.in]]|date=18 January 2017|title=Shiv Sena received 80% of all donations above Rs 20,000 to regional parties in 2015-'16: Report|url=https://scroll.in/latest/827095/shiv-sena-received-80-of-all-donations-above-rs-20000-to-regional-parties-in-2015-16-report|access-date=13 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109134123/https://scroll.in/latest/827095/shiv-sena-received-80-of-all-donations-above-rs-20000-to-regional-parties-in-2015-16-report|archive-date=9 November 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}  

The '''Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena''' (Balasaheb's Shiv Sena) is an Indian [[political party]] formed in 2022 under the [[leadership]] of [[Eknath Shinde]]. It has recently been allotted a new [[symbol]] by the [[Election Commission of India|Election Commission]], separate from the main [[Shiv Sena]]. It is now one of two separate [[Political faction|faction]]s, the other being the [[Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Team Eknath Shinde Now 'Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena', 'Mashaal' Poll Symbol for Uddhav Camp |url=https://www.news18.com/news/politics/ec-allots-balasahebchi-shiv-sena-as-new-name-for-shinde-led-faction-mashaal-poll-symbol-for-uddhav-camp-6137785.html |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=News18 |language=en}}</ref><ref>

{{Cite web |title=Thackeray-led Sena gets 'mashaal' as election symbol; Shinde camp asked to give fresh list |url=https://zeenews.india.com/india/ec-allots-mashaal-as-election-symbol-to-uddhav-thackeray-led-shiv-sena-faction-eknath-shinde-camp-asked-to-give-more-options-2520280.html/amp |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=zeenews.india.com}}</ref><ref>

== Leaders ==