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2. After Pawar vs Pawar, Thackeray vs Thackeray in Maharashtra?
Why the speculation?
The boost
What’s in it for Raj?
Second family tussle
Raj and the BJP
Meanwhile…
- A meeting between
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chiefRaj Thackeray and Union Home MinisterAmit Shah on Tuesday sparked speculation about the former’s entry into theNDA for the Lok Sabha polls. - The BJP is reportedly looking to set up a Thackeray-versus-Thackeray contest in Maharashtra to drive maximum benefit from the split of the Shiv Sena, founded by Bal Thackeray.
- Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, a BJP ally, now has the Shiv Sena, after favourable decisions from the Election Commission and the Mahastra Speaker.
- The ruling alliance also has Ajit Pawar’s faction of the Nationalist Congress Party — recognised as the original party, founded by his uncle Sharad Pawar, who is fighting a legal battle against the former’s rebellion.
- If the alliance is sealed, the MNS may contest from one seat in Mumbai, where Raj’s cousin Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) could make an impact.
- The two cousins have faced off multiple times in past elections but Uddhav was then head of the undivided Shiv Sena.
- This could be the second such battle with the BJP alliance expected to field Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra against Sharad Pawar’s daughter and Baramati MP Supriya Sule.
- The BJP had criticised Raj
Thackeray when his party ran a campaign against north Indians working in Maharashtra. - Raj enjoys the reputation of being a good orator, but his party’s never made much of a political impact — its best performance coming in 2009, when it won 13 Assembly seats. It has never won a seat in Parliament.
- On a petition by the NCP’s Sharad Pawar faction, the Ajit Pawar group told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that it wouldn’t use Pawar senior’s photograph.
- The Supreme Court allowed the Sharad Pawar faction to use 'Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar' as its name and 'Man blowing Turha' (a traditional trumpet) as the poll symbol in the upcoming polls.
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