THANE: Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde who had left Thane city as a rebel cabinet minister only to return as the chief minister of the state in a fortnight was accorded a grand welcome to his fiefdom- Thane city- late Monday by hundreds of his supporters who waited for nearly seven hours braving the torrential rains.
Dressed in his trademark white shirt and trouser, Shinde made an emotional appeal to several loyalists from outside the Anand Ashram in Tembhi naka area of Thane which is the workplace of his mentor late Shiv Sena leader Anand Dighe and also considered as the nerve centre of Shiv Sena.
