In 2023, the Election Commission recognised the Eknath Shinde-led faction as the real Shiv Sena and ordered allocation of the `bow-and-arrow` poll symbol to it, delivering a big blow to the rival camp led by Uddhav Thackeray, whose father Bal Thackeray founded the outfit in 1966

Fadnavis borrows popular phrase, rolls out old clips of Uddhav-Raj sparring, asks if Marathi pride was really unsafe after 25 years of Thackeray rule