Year After Split, Shinde Camp, Team Uddhav To Mark Shiv Sena Foundation Day
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Bal Thackeray, a political cartoonist, founded the Shiv Sena on June 19, 1966, and made the pride of 'Marathi manoos' (Marathi speakers in Mumbai) the core plank of its politics.
First time after the split of Shiv Sena last year, the Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray-led factions would be celebrating the party's foundation day at separate events in Mumbai today.
The day is likely to witness both factions trying to project themselves as the "true inheritor" of party founder late Bal Thackeray's legacy ahead of the Lok Sabha and Maharashtra Assembly elections.
While Shinde-led Shiv Sena will organise its event in Goregaon in northwest Mumbai, the Shiv Sena (UBT) will hold its event at Sion in central Mumbai.
In June last year, Eknath Shinde - then a minister at Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government - rebelled against his boss and toppled the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition government of the Sena, NCP and Congress with the support of 39 party MLAs.
