Overview

• Uddhav Thackeray addressed supporters at rain-soaked Shivaji Park while Eknath Shinde shifted to Mumbai’s NESCO Centre, with over 16,500 constables and nearly 2,900 officers deployed citywide for security.
• At Shivaji Park, Uddhav demanded a farm loan waiver and Rs 50,000 per hectare relief for rain-hit cultivators and closed with a headless Ravan effigy to mock the state government as “brainless.”
• Shinde used his covered-venue rally to attack Uddhav, pledge direct assistance to flood-affected farmers, tout Mahayuti governance, and explain the venue change from Azad Maidan due to waterlogging.
• Both leaders traded accusations while pitching themselves as the true heirs to Bal Thackeray’s legacy and urging cadres to gear up for local body contests, especially the BMC.
• Uddhav flagged renewed ties with cousin Raj Thackeray as he courted broader opposition unity, though no formal UBT–MNS alliance was announced.