Overview
- Declaring the Mukyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana permanent, Eknath Shinde said the women’s stipend program would never be shut and credited beneficiaries for the ruling alliance’s return last year.
- More than 100 activists, office-bearers and former corporators from 16 regions, including figures from Kalyan-Dombivli and some from the Uddhav Thackeray faction, joined his Shiv Sena at the Thane event.
- Positioning development as his core agenda, Shinde said he removed obstacles as chief minister and vowed faster progress through cluster redevelopment and housing for residents of unsafe buildings.
- He pledged support for farmers affected by unseasonal rains and highlighted infrastructure projects such as the Coastal Road, the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link and the Metro expansion.
- BJP’s appointment of Ganesh Naik to oversee seven organisational districts in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region signaled a sharpening contest on Shinde’s home turf before civic polls.