Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis mocked the Shiv Sena (UBT)-Maharashtra Navnirman Sena alliance, which marked the reunion of cousins Uddhav and Raj Thackeray. Fadnavis said the hype was created as if Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky were talking to each other. The chief minister said that both Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS were facing existential crisis.