Former Maharashtra chief minister and MLC Uddhav Thackeray is likely to face his successor and bete noire Eknath Shinde in the legislature for the first time after the bitter break-up of Shiv Sena led to the collapse of the MVA government in June this year.

Thackeray, who heads the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) faction, had not attended the monsoon session of the state legislature held in Mumbai, the first after the Shinde-BJP government came to power.