A day after an uproar in the ally camp and harsh criticism from the Opposition over the media campaign that projected Eknath Shinde as the preferred choice for the CM's post next year and showed Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis, the second preference, in a poor light, the Shiv Sena did some damage control by running another publicity campaign on Wednesday, apparently to appease the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Based on the same survey which was quoted on Tuesday, the new advertisement said 49.3 per cent of people wanted the United leadership of Shinde and Fadnavis. Apparently, it was an aggregate of the individual figures that were published on Tuesday while comparing the two leaders, with the Dy CM trailing behind the CM by three points.