Nashik: UBT Deploys Ravindra Mirlekar Amid Buzz Of 12 Corporators Joining Shiv Sena

Nashik: Amid speculation that 12 of the 15 corporators from the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) faction in the Nashik Municipal Corporation may join the Shiv Sena, the UBT camp has gone into damage-control mode. To assess whether any party leaders or office-bearers are encouraging defections and to gauge the actual mood of corporators, the party's contact chief, Ravindra Mirlekar, has arrived in Nashik and begun a series of meetings. Rumours of an "Operation Tiger" to induct 12 UBT corporators into the Shi