In an apparent attack on Thackeray's repeated utterances that the party was founded by his father late Bal Thackeray, who groomed its leaders, Fadnavis said "the Shiv Sena cannot be a property".
Shinde (58), MLA from Kopri-Panchpakhadi in neighbouring Thane city, a Shiv Sena bastion, started out as a grassroots Sena worker, and rose to become the most senior Sena minister in the Uddhav Thackeray government where he handled the urban development portfolio.
A legacy of Scindias or Shindes helping the BJP in opposition to topple governments has been repeated thrice. But history seems to have been forgotten by politicians in Maharashtra.
SC had agreed to hear at 5 pm a plea of Shiv Sena chief whip Sunil Prabhu challenging the Maharashtra Governor's direction to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government to take a floor test in the Assembly on Thursday.