Shinde Delivers Major Blow to Thackeray Amidst Election Buzz

• Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena faction poached key leaders from Uddhav Thackeray's camp while election results were being declared.
• Uday Surve, sub-divisional chief of Ward No. 6, and his wife Ujwala Surve, along with hundreds of workers, left Thackeray faction.
• The Surve couple and workers joined the Shiv Sena Shinde faction in the Dahisar Assembly constituency, in the presence of Magathane MLA Prakash Surve.
• Former corporator Tejasvi Ghosalkar of the Thackeray faction also recently left to join the BJP, further impacting Thackeray's strength.
• These defections significantly weaken Thackeray's organizational strength in North Mumbai and strengthen the BJP-Shinde alliance.

Why It Matters: Thackeray faction suffers major defections to Shinde and BJP, weakening its North Mumbai base.