A day after Chief Minister Eknath Shinde formed a special investigation team under the city police chief to probe R12,000 cr irregularities in the then Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena controlled Mumbai civic body, the former ruling party declared a war on the rival Sena faction. On Tuesday, Thackeray met his former corporators in the run-up to the civic polls.

Thackeray’s MLA son Aaditya will lead a protest march to the BMC headquarters on July 1, demanding a similar probe in the spending of the civic body’s fixed deposits. The former CM made an announcement to this effect on Tuesday. In response, CM Shinde said that the people who robbed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) were scared because of the SIT.