It appears that former corporators are slowly returning to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena. Two former corporators from Thane—Ankita Patil and Naresh Manera—who had joined Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s camp, have recently returned to it. This is the first time that Thackeray’s faction has got support from Thane, Chief Minister Shinde’s bastion, since the rebellion.

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