Maharashtra Chief Minister (CM) Eknath Shinde on Tuesday hit out at Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray for "abandoning" the principles of the Shiv Sena founder, and claimed that the Maha Vikas Aghadi government had been formed against the people's wishes.

According to news agency PTI, Shinde was speaking at a campaign rally in Satara in support of Shambhuraj Desai ahead of the November 20 Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024. During the rally, the CM also said that the higher "strike rate" of the Shiv Sena led by him in the Lok Sabha polls proved "whose Shiv Sena is the real one".