India, March 10 -- A Shiv Sena bastion for over three decades, Konkan turned into a battlefield for the two rival factions of the party on Saturday. Chief minister Eknath Shinde launched his campaign, 'Mission Konkan', for the Lok Sabha elections by attending three functions as well as a party workers' rally. On the other hand, things are not looking good for the Thackeray faction, given that its Guhagar MLA Bhaskar Jadhav has asked his supporters to attend a rally called by him on Sunday.

Shinde visited Ratnagiri district and attended several functions in Dapoli assembly constituency: the foundation-laying ceremony of a jetty at Harne Port, a road project at Mandangad, the inauguration of the government hospital at Dapoli and a party ra...