Aditya Thackeray

BJP leader Meenakshi Shinde is at the centre of a political storm in Thane after the Purnekar murder case, having named Shiv Sena leader Aditya Thackeray in connection with the killing while addressing a journalists' forum. Her remarks have heated up the political atmosphere in Thane, and police security has been deployed outside her residence amid rising tensions between the two parties.