Thackeray tie-up? Uddhav meets Raj on Ganesh Chaturthi; civic polls in focus | India News

Raj Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray (ANI photograph)

NEW DELHI: Former Maharashtra CM and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday visited his cousin, MNS supremo Raj Thackeray, at his Mumbai residence to supply prayers on Ganesh Chaturthi.The go to as soon as once more highlighted the rising bonhomie between the 2 cousins, who’ve had a historical past of strained ties each personally and politically.Speculation is rife that their renewed heat may pave the best way for a attainable alliance in the upcoming civic polls.This marks a minimum of the third public interplay between the as soon as estranged cousins. In July, Raj had visited Matoshree – the Thackeray household residence in Bandra East, as soon as the political base of Balasaheb Thackeray – to greet Uddhav on his birthday. The assembly, the place Raj introduced a bouquet of purple roses and Uddhav responded with a heat hug, was broadly seen as a step in the direction of cementing a possible MNS–Sena (UBT) partnership.The two had additionally come collectively on a political stage in July to mark their “victory” after the Maharashtra authorities withdrew its controversial GRs on the three-language method for Classes 1 to five and the alleged “imposition of Hindi” in the state.