Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. File picture.
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Barely a fortnight after Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray addressed his first public rally after shedding the social gathering title and image in Ratnagiri district’s Khed, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will address a rally at the identical venue on Sunday.
It can even be his first rally after the Election Commission of India recognised the faction led by him because the ‘real’ Shiv Sena and allotted it the ‘bow and arrow’ ballot image.
Khed Taluka in the coastal district is the house turf of senior Shiv Sena chief Ramdas Kadam, who has switched loyalties to the Shinde-led faction, and the Konkan belt is taken into account to be the sturdy belt of undivided Shiv Sena.
Another Shiv Sena (UBT) chief from the coastal Konkan belt, Uday Samant, is at present a minister in the Shinde-BJP authorities. Khed constituency is at present represented by Ramdas Kadam’s son Yogesh Kadam, additionally a member of the Shinde-led Shiv Sena.
Addressing his first public rally at Khed after shedding the Shiv Sena title and image, Uddhav Thackeray had on March 5 stated the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is probably the most corrupt social gathering in the nation and all opportunists are becoming a member of it to save themselves from corruption circumstances.
Meanwhile, buoyed by the success of the Maha Vikas Aghadi’s candidate in the recently-held Kasba Peth meeting bypoll in Pune metropolis, the Opposition alliance of NCP, Shiv Sena (UBT), and Congress has determined to maintain joint rallies throughout the state starting April 2.
MVA candidate Ravindra Dhangekar had defeated BJP’s Hemant Rasne in that bypoll.
“The first MVA rally will be held in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, formerly Aurangabad. Another rally will be held in Mumbai on May 1. Similar rallies will be organised in Nagpur, Nashik, Pune, Amravati and Kolhapur cities. The last rally will be in Kolhapur on May 28,” MVA leaders stated.
These joint rallies will strengthen the assembly of minds of employees of the three events at the grassroots, they stated.
(With inputs from PTI)
