Mumbai: As the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena gears up for its most crucial electoral battle after the June revolt – the Andheri (East) Assembly bypoll on November 3 – it has got the backing of the Communist Party of India (CPI), whose candidate the saffron outfit defeated in 1970 that triggered the decline of Left forces in Mumbai.
On Wednesday, a delegation of CPI leaders met former chief minister Thackeray at his residence here and extended the Left party’s support to his faction’s candidate in the Maharashtra Assembly bypoll in Andheri (East), a suburb of Mumbai.
CPI’s Mumbai secretary Milind Ranade said his party has pledged support to Thackeray for the bypoll necessitated by the death of sitting Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latke.
