Ahead the impending face-off between the rival Uddhav Thackeray and the Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena factions over the October 5 Dasara rally, verbal slanging matches accompanied by ‘teaser wars’ have erupted between the two camps.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shinde camp’s ally, has further stoked the fumes with BJP MLA Ram Kadam claiming that Mr. Thackeray was allegedly seeking help from his Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies – the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress – to fill up the Shivaji Park in Mumbai where the Thackeray faction are going to hold their rally.
“Given that Uddhav Thackeray failed to keep his flock together and most of his MLAs, MPs and Sena party cadre have deserted him, it is being said that their rally will be flocked with Congress and NCP workers. Talk is that NCP and Congress cadres will be brought in buses to Shivaji Park on October 5. The Thackeray faction ought to clarify these rumours,” said Mr. Kadam, the BJP MLA from Ghatkopar West in Mumbai.
