After Reunion, Alliance Buzz Gets Big As Uddhav Thackeray Meets Raj Thackeray At His Home

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Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray visited the home of his cousin and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray in Mumbai amid the buzz of an alliance between the two parties ahead of local body polls after years of estrangement.

The latest meeting between the two party chiefs and their leaders was held at ‘Shivtirth’, the residence of Raj Thackeray in the city’s Dadar area.

According to various media reports, Incidentally, Maharashtra Congress leaders had met Uddhav Thackeray  during which the issue of possible alliance between the Shiv Sena-UBT and the MNS cropped up. Leaders of the Congress, an ally of the Shiv Sena-UBT, had then said they will discuss the issue with their high command.

This was the second public interaction between the once-estranged cousins in the past fortnight. Uddhav had visited ‘Shivtirth’ late last month on the occasion of the Ganesh festival.

Shiv Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut later told reporters Uddhav Thackeray visited ‘Shivtirth’ to meet Raj’s mother Kunda, who is his ‘mavshi’ (mother’s sister), but did not dwell on the political angle of the meeting.

Both Raj and Uddhav Thackeray are maternal as well as paternal cousins.

However, an MNS leader insisted this was the first time the two leaders met to discuss the possibility of a formal alliance between their parties and broad contours of it.