Following his intra-party rebellion that spilt the Shiv Sena wide apart, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s faction gave a further jolt to the Uddhav Thackeray camp in Aurangabad in the gram panchayat results declared on Sunday.
In Aurangabad, the bastion of the Uddhav camp (the Sena dominates the civic body), 10 of the 15 gram panchayats were snared by the Shinde group with the former winning just one.
Of all districts, the taluks in Aurangabad had turned into a prestige fight between the two rival camps since Mr. Shinde took over as Chief Minister on June 30 after his revolt toppled the erstwhile Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA.
