Sena appoints Vinayak Raut as leader of party in Lok Sabha

The Shiv Sena Saturday appointedRatnagiri-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 wasMLC since 2012 before being elected to the Lok Sabha in the2014 polls.