Mumbai, May 20 (Reporter) Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday predicted‘ that Bharatiya Janata Party-NDA will win more than 400 seats, while a total wipeout of his rival Shiv Sena (UBT)’s ex-CM Uddhav Thackeray in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Shinde, along with his wife Lata, and other family members came together to vote at a polling station in neighbouring Thane city. While interacting with several voters around the polling station, he expressed gratitude for their support and called upon the masses to vote in favour of the BJP to strengthen the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2024. “Uddhav Thackeray has betrayed the mandate of the people of Maharashtra not once, but twice, to become the CM. He has compromised the teachings and ideology of Balasaheb Thackeray and Anand Dighe to ally with traitors to grab power. The masses will teach him an appropriate lesson after the elections,” he said, talking to the media . On his son Dr. Shrikant Shinde’s prospects in Kalyan LS seat (Thane) where he is pitted against SS (UBT)’s nominee Vaishali Darekar-Rane, the CM said he (Dr. Shrikant) will win with a record margin for a hat trick there. “He has implemented immense development work in his constituency, and the people have witnessed it. They will elect him for the third consecutive term (after 2014 and 2019), with an unprecedented winning margin,” claimed Shinde...////...