India, Feb. 19 -- Amid the increasing defections from the Konkan region and reports of discontent in other areas regarding party functioning, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray will soon tour Konkan, a Shiv Sena bastion for decades. Along with this attempt at damage control, Thackeray has asked party leaders to meet every week to discuss and review party matters.

Deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde has been determinedly poaching leaders, former MLAs and former corporators from the Shiv Sena (UBT) across Maharashtra right from the first week of January. The success of the enterprise called 'Operation Tiger' is evident-many corporators from the Sena (UBT) left and joined Shinde last week, as did Rajan Salvi, former MLA from Rajapur in ...