Mumbai, August 11: Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) claimed on Tuesday that the attack on Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal is not merely an assault on an individual political figure but a direct blow to the democratic fabric of the Republic. Her survival is merely a matter of chance, but this incident reveals a horrifying truth: the state of political violence in West Bengal has crossed all acceptable limits.” Today, as targeted political violence escalates, that readiness is conspicuously absent. Presenting a violent attack on a senior political figure merely as a ‘fight between the public and a political party’ is both irresponsible and dangerous. Shiv Sena, led by Uddhav Thackeray, argued that in a functioning democracy, electoral victories and defeats are determined at the ballot box.