Maharashtra Police on Tuesday, resorted to lathicharge as tension escalated in the Kisan Nagar area due to a clash between members of the Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray Shiv Sena factions in Thane. The incident occured after the midnight in Bhatwadi area of Kisan Nagar, which is a part of Eknath Shinde's constituency.
The tension erupted after members of the Uddhav Thackeray faction led by a senior leader clashed with activists of a local former corporator from the Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena.
The arguments turned into violence after which the police intervened. Both party members levelled allegations on the other, as reported by the news agency ANI. FIR has been filed against members of both the factions. Meanwhile, forty functionaries of the BJP and Congress from Latur in Maharashtra have joined the Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, a district office-bearer from the CM-headed party said on Tuesday.
Shinde was present at the event in Mumbai on Sunday when they joined his party. Among those inducted are former BJP Latur tehsil president Balaji Adsul, former zilla parishad member Rajkumar Kalame and former corporator Prakash Patil Wanjarkhedkar.
"We worked against Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh to strengthen the BJP, but today the scene is different," Adsul told PTI.
(With agencies’ Inputs)