Summary:
However, these pamphlets in Gujarati underline the demographic shift in the erstwhile Marathi stronghold of South Mumbai and the Sena's inevitability of reaching out to an auxiliary vote-base. Choudhari said of the 32 corporators in the Lok Sabha seat, the Shiv Sena and BJP had 15 and nine respectively. On May 1, 2014, days after polling in Maharashtra ended, the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna, attacked Gujaratis, questioning their loyalty to Maharashtra. The flyers canvassing support for Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant seem like any other campaign material distributed during elections. Later that year, the BJP snapped its alliance with the Shiv Sena and emerged as the single-largest party in the state..