The incident in which Shinde Sena workers have been accused of assaulting a female worker of the Thackeray Sena has turned into a political potboiler; a first-of-its-kind ahead of the forthcoming polls, in Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s home turf of Thane. Predicting that the current government’s fall is imminent, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray has pledged to send all, including the Indian Administrative and police service officers, to jail for collaborating with the CM in ‘illegal activities’.

Aaditya was speaking at a protest march his party and MVA partners, the Congress and NCP, took out in Thane on Wednesday. The speakers, including Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Jitendra Awhad and Shiv Sena (UBT) Sushma Andhare, condemned Shinde Sena for assaulting Roshni Shinde on Sunday for her social media posts against CM Shinde and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Aaditya gave a call for a ‘Mahila Sanman Yatra’ (march to honour women) across the state, because Roshni’s attackers were still scot-free, while the victim was expected to be arrested. He said the chief of Thane police was not present when he went to the headquarters to meet him.