With the Congress already smarting due to the Shiv Sena (UBT) unilaterally staking claim for four prestigious Mumbai Lok Sabha seats, the Thackeray party seems to have now added insult to injury. mid-day has discovered that both parties are now claiming Mumbai North, which already has a formidable adversary on the other side in Union minister Piyush Goyal.

Patil met Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray and Sanjay Raut on Tuesday, along with a host of local Sena leaders from Jalgaon. In the Shinde Sena, Nashik’s sitting MP Hemant Godse is upset because NCP (SP)’s Chhagan Bhujbal is tipped as an official candidate there. This, according to Godse and his supporters, is a breach of Shinde’s promise that all MPs and MLAs, who staged a coup against Thackeray two years ago, would be fielded in their respective Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha constituencies.