Disappointed with the results of the recent local body polls which saw the Shiv Sena finish in fourth place, the party president and Chief Minister, Uddhav Thackeray, advised party leaders and workers to learn from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) partners, who fared better.

Thackeray was talking to Shiv sainiks on the occasion of party founder the late Balasaheb Thackeray’s birth anniversary on Sunday. He assured sainiks that he was fine after spine surgery. He lambasted the opposition for making an issue out of his illness.