`Dear Shiv Sainiks, I want to free Shiv Sena from clutches of the dragon, MVA`: Eknath Shinde

Shinde's appeal came after Sena workers loyal to party president and Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray staged protests against the rebel MLAs led by him by defacing their banners, hurling stones in some places and vandalising the office of an MLA in Pune.