Uddhav and Raj Thackeray will contest civic elections together, says Sanjay Raut
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
will contest the coming
civic elections
in Mumbai and elsewhere together.
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"The Thackeray brothers (Sena (UBT) chief
Uddhav Thackeray
and
Raj Thackeray
) will contest the municipal corporation elections in Mumbai, Thane, Nashik and Kalyan-Dombivali together and win. The strength of Raj and Uddhav Thackeray is the strength of the unity of the Marathi-speakers. No power cannot break the iron fist of 'Marathi manus' now," Raut told reporters here.
Discussions with the MNS for forming an alliance are underway, Raut said.
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The BJP, however, dismissed his statement.
Pravin Darekar, a state BJP legislator, said it was unclear whether the two Thackeray cousins had held any talks or it was all Raut's "guesswork".
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"We have not seen so much helplessness in Uddhav Thackeray, who did not remember his own cousin, MNS chief Raj Thackeray for the last 20 years," he said.
Maharashtra minister and BJP leader Girish Mahajan said the Sena (UBT) remembers Marathi-speakers only when elections are near.
The BJP received huge support from Marathi voters in the last year's assembly elections and the attempt to mislead them did not work, he said.
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