CM Eknath Shinde, Uddhav Thackeray
With the nomination process for the Maharashtra Assembly elections over, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray now enters the fray from Tuesday to settle scores with the Shinde gang. Uddhav Thackeray begins the election campaign with a visit to the Ambabai temple in Kolhapur, through which he is seen as a strategy to win seats in the Konkan and Vidarbha regions. On Uddhav’s agenda are the constituencies of MLAs who rebelled against Chief Minister Eknath Shinde by joining the 2022 elections. Now, after two years, Uddhav has devised a strategy to settle scores by organizing a protest directly in your area.
Uddhav Thackeray will address his first public meeting in Adampur after visiting the Ambabai temple on Tuesday. After this, Uddhav will reach Ratnagiri in the late afternoon and will address the public election meeting at 6 pm. The MLA from Ratnagiri seat is state Industry Minister Uday Samant, who joined hands with Eknath Shinde and resigned from Uddhav Thackeray. Holding a public meeting in Ratnagiri, Uddhav Thackeray will appeal for the victory of his party MP Rajan Salvi, who is contesting from the Rajapur assembly seat.
Uddhav Thackeray to roar from Konkan
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray has planned to directly challenge CM Eknath Shinde by making electoral noise from Ratnagiri district of the Konkan region. In such a situation, Uddhav Thackeray has made a plan to address a total of 25 election public meetings in Maharashtra between November 5 and 17. In such a situation, his main focus is on the Shiv Sena MLAs who rebelled against Shinde, against whom Uddhav now has a strategy to settle political scores through campaigns.
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Uddhav Thackeray will campaign on November 6 in Bhiwandi Rural constituency in Thane district, represented by Shantaram More, who was one of the 40 MLAs who rebelled against him. Thane district is CM Shinde’s turf, the same day Uddhav will attend the Maha Vikas Aghadi rally at the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) in Mumbai, sharing the stage with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and the CPN(S) president Sharad Pawar do. .
On November 7, Uddhav Thackeray will campaign in Dariyapur, from where Abhijeet Adsul, son of veteran Shiv Sena leader Anand Adsul, will contest the assembly elections. On the same day, the Shiv Sena (UBT) chief will vote for the party’s candidate. Badnera, Sunil Kharate will ask. This constituency is the area of three-time MLA and BJP ally Ravi Rana. Badnera MLA Ravi Rana and his wife Navneet Rana had challenged Thackeray to recite Hanuman Chalisa outside their private residence ‘Matoshree’ when he was Chief Minister. For this, the Rana couple was arrested at that time and sent to prison.
What is Uddhav Thackeray’s strategy?
Uddhav Thackeray will campaign on November 8 in Buldhana and Mehkar in Vidarbha, where MLAs Sanjay Gaikwad and Sanjay Raimulkar are from. Both the MLAs had hoisted the flag of rebellion along with Shinde in 2022. After this, the Uddhav group candidate will campaign for Asaram Borade in Partur of Parbhani district. This time Borade is pitted against BJP’s MLA Babanrao Lonikar. In this way, Uddhav Thackeray has strategized to settle scores directly with the MLAs from the Shinde camp.
Uddhav Thackeray has chosen the Konkan area for Mission-Maharashtra, which has been his stronghold. From CM Eknath Shinde to Narayan Rane they have dominance in these areas. In such a situation, Uddhav Thackeray’s strategy is to directly challenge him by campaigning from his opponent’s stronghold. There are 39 assembly seats in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. Big cities like Raigarh and Ratnagiri are located in this area. The Konkan region has been a former stronghold of the Shiv Sena, but after Shinde’s split, Uddhav Thackeray now faces the challenge of resetting his politics.
Uddhav to directly challenge Shinde
Both Shinde and Narayan Rane, who were the faces of Shiv Sena in the Konkan belt, are with BJP. Most of the Shiv Sainiks who left Uddhav and went with Shinde were from this area. In a way, the entire election in Konkan is Shiv Sena versus Shiv Sena. That is why Uddhav Thackeray wants to directly challenge Shinde by starting the election campaign from Konkan. Apart from this, Uddhav Thackeray has drawn up a strategy to control Vidarbha, where the main contest is between the Congress and the BJP. Uddhav knows very well that if he wants to remain useful in Maharashtra politics, he will also have to protect his political strength. That is why Uddhav Thackeray decided to come to the Konkan region and give a political message.
Fight between Shiv Sena and Shiv Sena
Of the total 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena is contesting on 82 seats under the NDA alliance, while Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) has fielded its candidates for 93 seats under the India alliance. . Of them, Shiv Sena is fighting candidates from Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) on 47 seats. Of the 47 seats in which Shiv Sena vs Shiv Sena are contesting, 16 seats are from the Mumbai region and 18 seats are from the Konkan region. Apart from this, there is a fight between Shiv Sena and Shiv Sena for 7 seats in Marathwada region and the remaining seats are in Vidarbha, West and North Maharashtra.
War after rebellion in Shiv Sena
This is the second election after the split in Shiv Sena, when Shiv Sena will take on Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Shinde’s Shiv Sena contested against Uddhav’s candidate in three seats in Mumbai – Mumbai South, Mumbai South Central and North West and could only win one seat. Thus, there is competition between Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Shiv Sena (UBT) for 47 Assembly seats, including 10 seats in Mumbai, two in Pune and three in Kalyan. High profile seats like Kopri-Pachpakhadi and Worli are also included. In Worli, Milind Deora is contesting against Aditya Thackeray, while in CM Shinde’s Kopri-Pachpakhadi seat, Shiv Sena’s UBT has fielded Kedar Dighe, nephew of its guru Anand Dighe.
There will be tough competition in every seat.
Assembly constituencies like Byculla, Mahim, Jogeshwari East, Magathane, Kurla, Vikhroli, Dindoshi, Chembur, Andheri East, Bhandup, Shivri, Ambernath, Kalyan West, Bhiwandi Rural, Kalyan Rural and Ovala-Majiwada will see Shiv Sena contest vs Shiv Sena (UBT) There are seats. Therefore, the assembly elections are expected to be a decisive battle, a battle for survival and a battle to decide who is the real Shiv Sena. This is the reason why Uddhav Thackeray has strategized to openly challenge the leaders of the Shinde camp by entering the electoral field. In such a situation, you have to see who prevails over whom in the checkmate game.
