Emotional Uddhav offers to step down as Shiv Sena (UBT) president, Eknath Shinde hints at more defections

Mr. Thackeray calls for starting ‘Operation Lotus’ in response to ‘Operation Tiger’ allegedly carried out by the Shiv Sena to lure six of its nine Lok Sabha MPs into its fold and refuted allegations his party was likely to merge with the Congress

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