Barbs fly at Sena vs Sena Dussehra rallies
Mumbai, Oct. 3 -- Sworn political rivals, Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray faced off from opposite ends of the city as they addressed party workers at their respective Dussehra rallies on Thursday. Shiv Sena chief Shinde said at the NESCO grounds in Goregaon that "Mumbai would go back 25 years" if the Mahayuti alliance was not elected in the upcoming civic elections. Thackeray, at the Sena (UBT) rally at Shivaji Park, said he and his cousin's MNS would work together ensure that the Marathi vote would not be split.
Shinde's speech was replete with digs at Thackeray. Calling him "a conspirator and not a party chief", he said, "I have never seen a person who wants to decimate his own partymen."
Thackeray, on the other hand, alleged that chief minister Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP, has "failed in governance and has no control over his corrupt ministers." Since elections are approaching, he accused the BJP of stirring communal trouble.
Shinde and Thackeray couldn't resist tossing a few barbs at each other. While Thackeray had slammed Sena leaders for distributing kits with pictures of their faces on them, to the flood-hit in Marathwada, Shinde shot back on Thursday, saying, "Have you given one packet of biscuit?"...
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