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The sequel shows Shindes ascent from his humble roots as an auto-rickshaw driver to a near shadow of Dighe, and someone who attempts to take over the legacy of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray...
Shinde had walked out of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, toppling the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government that the Shiv Sena had formed with former rivals Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), with a majority of MLAs in tow..
Sanjay Patil, a researcher at Mumbai University, told ThePrint, There is a large base of Shiv Sena workers and supporters who may have stayed with Uddhav Thackeray, but who have some sympathy towards Shinde and his stated viewpoint about Hindutva as a Shiv Sainik..
On the other side of the aisle, speaking to reporters,Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut slammed the film as an attempt by the BJP and Eknath Shinde to project Dighe as larger than Bal Thackeray..
Each of these avatars of Shinde are juxtaposed by something similar Dighe had done as a mass leader when he was alive.. Ever since the vertical split in the Shiv Sena, Shinde and his followers have constantly attacked Uddhav for allegedly abandoning Hindutva by forging an alliance with ideological rivals Congress and NCP...
