Mumbai, Jan. 9 -- Tension surfaced between workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena led by Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde during the Mumbai Municipal Corporation election campaign, after a controversial slogan triggered a public confrontation on Friday.
The situation escalated when BJP workers, using loudspeakers during campaigning in Ward 173, raised the slogan "50 khoke ekdum ok", a phrase that has so far been associated with criticism of the Shinde faction by the Thackeray group.
The use of the same slogan by BJP workers angered Shinde Sena activists, who reacted strongly and began raising counter-slogans against their alliance partner. Videos of the incident quickly went viral on social media, intensifying politica...