As of 1:45 PM on Saturday, Aaditya Thackeray held a lead of 6,120 votes over Milind Deora, with 12 of the 17 counting rounds completed. Deora, a former Congress MP who joined Shinde’s Shiv Sena earlier this year, had briefly overtaken Thackeray during the initial rounds of counting before the latter regained his advantage.

Shiv Sena candidate and former Union minister Milind Deora mocked Uddhav Sena’s Aaditya Thackeray after he won the Worli constituency with a wafer-thin margin on Saturday. According to the data on the ECI’s website,

In the 2019 Maharashtra assembly election, Aditya Thackeray polled over 69 per cent votes, defeating NCP's Suresh Mane.

Deora was chosen to contest from high-profile seat because Shinde did not want Thackeray to have a cakewalk, it is learnt. Thackeray's margin has come down drastically from 2019.

Shiv Sena UBT leader and former minister Aaditya Thackeray has retained his Worli seat defeating Shiv Sena nominee and former Union minister Milind Deora and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena

While Aaditya Thackeray from the Uddhav camp entered the fray to lay claim to the seat once again, Milind Deora from the Shinde faction came to give a fight.  However, after a see-saw contest, Thackeray clinched the seat once again leaving Deora biting the dust.

Aaditya Thackeray, the sitting MLA from Shiv Sena (UBT) is taking on Milind Deora, a member of the Shiv Sena and Rajya Sabha, and Sandeep Deshpande of the MNS in the Worli assembly seat in the Maharashtra Assembly elections.

Thackeray is seeking a reelection from the seat.  Elections to the 288-member Maharashtra assembly were held on November 20.

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Aditya Thackeray faced Milind Deora, a former Congress ally in the Maha Vikas Aghadi, for the Worli constituency in the 2024 Maharashtra assembly elections