Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had a setback after losing the chair of the Chief Minister a few days ago, as 66 out of 67 Shiv Sena corporators joined the Eknath Shinde camp. The corporators met Chief Minister Shinde at his official residence last night.
The Thane Municipal Corporation was the first big win for Eknath Shinde after he took over the legislative party office, India Today reported. The Thane corporation is the most important municipal corporation after the Mumbai Municipal Corporation.
Prior to this development, Thackeray had attacked Shinde and claimed that Shinde had backstabbed him. He made comments while addressing the Shiv Sena workers. He told the media persons present at the event that Shinde, to whom I gave the party's responsibility backstabbed me, while NCP and Congress remained with us. It is painful to see that MLAs and ministers who won due to the Sena workers and got everything have left him. A day after this comment from Thackeray, Shinde fired a tweet in Marathi saying Autorickshaw outpaced Mercedes car because this is a government of the common man. Some Sena leaders taunted Shinde as an autorickshaw driver when he was leading the revolt against the Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA government. Shinde used to be an autorickshaw driver.
The Shinde government won the trust vote earlier this week, with 164 MLAs voting for the motion of confidence and 99 siding with the MVA despite 3 abstaining from voting.