A bitter row has erupted in Maharashtra politics over sensational claims made by former minister Ramdas Kadam about the death of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, with Uddhav Thackeray’s faction dismissing them as “fake” and preparing for legal action, even as allies of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the BJP rallied behind Kadam.

On Saturday, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and MLC Anil Parab said he would file a defamation case against Kadam for his “baseless and insulting” remarks about Bal Thackeray’s final days in November 2012. Any damages awarded from the case, he said, would be donated to farmers hit by floods.

Parab also challenged Kadam to undergo a narco analysis test, and in a counter attack demanded a fresh inquiry into the death of Kadam’s wife in 1993, which he alleged had been “my

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