The Shiv Sena’s rally at the scarcity-hit Jalna city in central Maharashtra on Sunday was perceived as a reassertion of the party’s new chief Uddhav Thackeray, who ventured on his first big political rally following his father Bal Thackeray’s death.

Shiv Sena’s new chief Uddhav Thackeray lambasted the ruling Congress-NCP combine for its inability to provide drinking water to areas that needed help to cope with a drought-like situation in a rally at Jalna in Maharashtra. File pic