A special ‘Shiv Sena Express’ carrying Ganesh devotees from Mumbai to Konkan departed Dadar on September 12 ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi. Shiv Sena leader Nilesh N Rane said the train was headed for Kudal and was flagged off in the presence of party workers and Konkan residents

In an editorial published in the party mouthpiece Saamana on Saturday, the Uddhav Thackeray-led party alleged that the growing reliance on publicly funded handouts for electoral purposes was weakening democratic institutions and undermining public accountability