New Delhi: As the antagonism between Uddhav Thackeray camp and rebel Eknath Shinde camp escalates and Shiv Sena gets increasingly cornered, the party is resorting to arm-tactics and also verbal threats to rebel group.

Sanjay Raut today ripped into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), accusing it of engineering split and asked them to ‘stop bleating like a gloat’. He also warned the rebels, staying in a luxury hotel of BJP-ruled state, that the patience of people was wearing thin.

“Outside Maharashtra, you are eagles. Right now Shiv Sainiks have not come out on the streets. If they do, the streets will be on fire,” he said.

Outside Maharashtra, you are eagles. But people’s patience is wearing thin. Right now Shiv Sainiks have not come out on the streets. If they do, the streets will be on fire: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut pic.twitter.com/PZyjRa0Rmm

— ANI (@ANI) June 25, 2022

Apparently provoked by party’s top leadership, the Sena workers today attacked a party rebel MLA Tanaji Sawant’s office in Pune. The act of vandalism was recorded on camera. Rebel MLA Tanaji Sawant is currently camping with rebel Shinde camp in Assam.

#WATCH | Shiv Sena workers vandalise office of the party’s MLA Tanaji Sawant in Balaji area of Katraj, Pune. Sawant is one of the rebel MLAs from the state and is currently camping in Guwahati, Assam. #MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis pic.twitter.com/LXRSLPxYJC

— ANI (@ANI) June 25, 2022

Sanjay Raut has been issuing veiling threats to rebel MLAs who are stationed in Guwahati. A day ago, he dared Shinde & his camp of returning to Mumbai and then do a ‘saamna’ with them.

Sena mouthpiece hits out at ‘superpower’

Shiv Sena mouthpiece in its editorial ‘Saamna’ lashed out at the BJP and also accused of engineering a rebellion in is its ranks by deploying money power and threatening some with fear of central agencies.

In the scathing editorial, the mouthpiece hit out at BJP as well as its rebel MLAs who have found save refuge in Assam. Calling Guwahati hotel a Yoga camp, it slammed the Assam govt and also listed out failures of BJP govt to debunk the claim of Shinde camp that ‘it has the blessings of a superpower’.

Meanwhile, the party supremo and rebel camp supremo have kept themselves restricted to emotional speeches. Uddhav Thackeray made an emotional appeal to workers to return to Mumbai and ‘take CM’s chair’ while Eknath Shinde wrote to Maharashtra CM over ’malicious withdrawal’ of security for the family of rebel MLAs.

Meanwhile, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena will hold national executive meet today while the party faces a massive internal tussle, threatening to bring down the state government.