The party claimed that the gap between the government’s claims and the ground reality is widening, with people facing long queues outside gas agencies and several eateries reportedly shutting down due to shortage of commercial LPG cylinders

In an editorial published in the party’s mouthpiece Saamana, the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction said the government was creating “bubbles of optimism” about the state’s economic growth while overlooking mounting debt and weakening economic indicators