The ‘Real’ Shiv Sena is the subject of a continuing verbal battle between Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde

Uddhav Thackeray has accused Eknath Shinde of stealing his father’s name in a verbal spat between two Shiv Sena sections. Shinde has responded with Bal Thackeray’s video clip, saying he will never support Congress.

Both sides are fighting for the founder Balasaheb Thackeray’s legacy.

Eknath Shinde, quoted by news agency PTI in its report, stated, “We will respond to them by celebrating Revolution Day tomorrow… It will be observed every year and by every shakha (branch) of Shiv Sena.”

“All the people here — you know how many signatures the Chief Minister signed in the last 2.5 years?” said Shinde. I go above and beyond that. In a day, I delete files. I sign all of the documents while driving. I carry two pens, but the former Chief Minister did not even carry one.

Uddhav Thackeray delivered a harsh speech at a party gathering in Worli, in south-central Mumbai, where his son and former minister Aaditya Thackeray is an Assemblyman.

It’s traitor day on Wednesday. The traitors will have betrayed us for a whole year. They attempted to take my father’s identity as well as our name from the documents throughout this one year. Nevertheless, Uddhav Thackeray’s name must be brought up in each speech. The Ram temple may be credited to you, Eknath Shinde. However, you sing the name of Uddhav Thackeray rather than Ram, he remarked.

He also questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to the US this week, saying that Manipur should have been the destination given the circumstances there rather than New York and Washington.

Shinde said, “He wants PM Modi to go to Manipur. “For PM Modi, who has carried out surgical strikes inside Pakistan, it is no great problem… You ought to have showed some respect, at the very least by travelling from Varsha to Mantralay, he continued.

Invoking Marathi pride, Uddhav Thackeray’s late father, Balasaheb Thackeray, launched the Shiv Sena on June 19, 1966.

Shinde has been asserting that he is the legitimate heir to Balasaheb’s heritage ever since the Shiv Sena split. He frequently emphasised how Uddhav Thackeray had abandoned his father’s philosophy by joining up with the Congress and Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party.