Even as the BJP, Shiv Sena and Congress are busy indulging in a mud-slinging battle to gain control of the country’s richest municipal body, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), which hasn’t made a head start in the election campaign yet, will finally come out of hiding.

The MNS chief will be making his first appearance as part of the campaign at Kannamwar Nagar in Vikhroli East, Sandeep Deshpande, senior MNS leader at the BMC confirmed.