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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Abhinay Deshpande

Mumbai Dasara rallies become a free for all, Shinde and Uddhav hurl barbs at each other

The fight for the legacy of Shiv Sena between the warring factions of Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde reached a crescendo with the “show of strength” at the Dasara rallies barely 6 km apart from one another in Mumbai on Wednesday.

Significantly, the common factor in the speeches delivered by Mr. Uddhav and Mr. Shinde was Hindutva, betrayal, dynastic succession and who inherited the true ideals and values espoused by party patriarch Bal Thackeray.

Mr. Uddhav, who addressed the rally at traditional Shivtirth (Shivaji Park), called his former party colleagues in Shinde’s camp ‘traitors’

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