Mumbai, Feb. 18 -- After the unprecedented success in the assembly elections, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde exhorted party workers to be ready for the upcoming municipal polls in the state.

Addressing Shiv Sena office bearers and workers at a gathering held at the NSCI Dome Center in Worli, he said, "Take the work done by the government in Mumbai and the state over the last two and a half years to the people. Every ward should have a Shiv Sena branch, and every home should have a Shiv Sainik. We delivered one blow in the assembly elections, and now we need to deliver the second blow in the Mumbai Municipal Corporation,"

He directed the members and office bearers to register 123 new names from each ward as party members...