Even as the sabre-rattling between rival Shiv Sena factions led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray intensified a day after their Dasara rallies, their respective allies spewed vitriol on each other, with the Congress slamming Mr. Shinde for “reading the Bharatiya Janata Party’s script” at his address, and the BJP claiming that the unprecedented crowds at Mr. Shinde’s Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) rally conclusively proved that the ‘real’ Shiv Sena was the one led by the CM and not Uddhav Thackeray.
Speaking in Pune, BJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis remarked that despite the size of the BKC grounds being twice the size of Dadar’s Shivaji Park (where Mr. Thackeray held his rally), the gargantuan crowds which came from Mumbai city, the surrounding Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and other parts of Maharashtra resoundingly showed that the “true” Sena was the one led by Mr. Shinde.
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