Estranged cousins Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray shared the stage today after two decades, marking a paradigm shift in Maharashtra’s politics. The event called ‘Awaj Marathicha’ (Voice of the Marathi) was the first time since 2005 that the cousins who have been embroiled in a bitter legacy battle came together in a show of unity as the Maharashtra government scrapped two GRs to introduce Hindi as the third language in the state under the New Education Policy. Raj Thackeray even said Devendra Fadnavis achieved what Balasaheb could not. Uddhav Thackeray declared: “One thing is clear: we have removed the distance between us. We have come together, we will stay together.”
But what does this mean for the larger grouping of the Maha Vikas Aghadi? There was a special guest at the rally – Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) leader Supriya Sule but Congress was conspicuous by its absence.
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