In a battle over bragging rights for the newly opened drive-in-vaccination centre located at Andheri Sports Complex, party workers belonging to the Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party got into a heated scuffle—over literally nothing—on Saturday. 

Andheri Sports Complex is located in Ward Number 63, whose corporator is Ranjana Patil of the BJP. After the success of the Dadar-based Kohinoor drive-in vaccination facility, which was the city’s first, the BMC had marked six more locations to start drive-in vaccination centres as well, out of which, one is located at Andheri Sports Complex. The centre was inaugurated by local BJP MLA Bharti Lavekar, who was invited by Patil to grace the occasion. Shortly thereafter, Shiv Sena’s Rajul Patel—who was elected as the BMC’s Health Committee Chairperson just last month after defeating the BJP’s Bindu Trivedi—showed up at the vaccination centre along with a few party workers. This face-off between the two caused tensions to escalate, resulting in a scuffle.